From Condemned to Redeemed

Book Review -- Letters from the Dhamma Brothers
 
A room full of vicious animals or a room full of deranged, hardened convicts--I don't know which is a more fitting description of hell. In 2002, three brave individuals descended at Donaldson Correctional Facility--a maximum security prison in Alabama--with one goal: to teach violent inmates the ancient, non-violent technique of vipassana meditation in the tradition of S. N. Goenka. They sat in stillness with the prisoners all day, slept in the...