Prison Yoga Project Goes Behind Bars to Help Inmates Heal Their Trauma (Inside Edition)

Karen Clemmer 3/1/209:12 AM

By Inside Edition staff, February 8, 2020
Once a week, yoga teacher Chanda Williams walks through the gates at San Quentin Prison with her yoga mat under her arm to teach a class. She’s an instructor with the Prison Yoga Project, a non-profit organization that brings the ancient practice behind the walls of correctional facilities across the world to help inmates heal their trauma. Williams says it’s her way of trying to help break the cycle of incarceration many prisoners find themselves in.

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I thought the California 'Honor Prison' availed [traumatized] Inmates some other options too, [while it was still operational] - with it's 'admission criteria' of a commitment to Non-Violence, and renouncing 'Gang membership'--noted in Susan Lawrence, M.D.'s book: "Creating a Healing Society: ...".

A New York Prison Warden (and later Warden of the Portsmouth Naval Disciplinary Barracks], [Thomas Mott Osborne] used to 'give' his inmates 'Civic Tasks'...

George Bernard Shaw is credited with the quote: "To Punish a Man, you must Injure him; To Reform a man, you must Improve him; and men are Not Improved by Injuries." This is probably applicable to persons of either gender, of all ages. (I had it printed on an index card, and taped to my cell wall-during my "Youthful offender" [no criminal record] adjudication at Attica, until a 'shakedown' for 'contraband' resulted in it being the only item taken [and- without a 'disciplinary 'write-up'] from my cell during the prison-wide [contraband] search.)

Prison Yoga Project Goes Behind Bars to Help Inmates Heal Their Trauma (Inside Edition)

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