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THE DHAMMA BROTHERS

Join host Fred Craden in conversation about the prison inmates at Donaldson Correctional Facility who enter into an intensive meditation program and dramatically reveal a tale of human potential and transformation

An overcrowded, violent maximum-security prison, the end of the line in Alabama's prison system, is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence live over 1,500 prisoners, many of whom will never again know life in the outside world. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding program of silent meditation lasting ten days and requiring 100 hours of meditation.

USA, 2008, 76 min., In English and Spanish with English Subtitles, DVD | Directors: Andrew Kukura, Jenny Phillips and Anne Marie Stein