https://www.theguardian.com/so...rime-cut-reoffending

The 46-year-old charity worker has been clean of drugs for seven years after breaking his two-decade cycle of addiction, reoffending and imprisonment. He now has a full-time job with the Karuna Trust, a charity working in India and Nepal, and he’s been out of prison for more than five years. He puts this down to the self-control he gained during his daily sessions of yoga and meditation while “inside”.

“One man told me that the yoga class was the first time he had ever relaxed in his life.”

Not all prison governors are convinced. At least 32 prisons do not provide any yoga. And the government has recently rejected moves to teach boxing and martial arts in prison despite evidence that it teaches young men self-discipline and respect for others.