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Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

1997, Movie, NR, 52 mins

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana: Review

The only thing more unexpected than the sight of hundreds of hardened inmates peacefully meditating in a prison yard is how effectively such behavior has improved conditions in one of the planet's largest and most notorious prisons. Located in a suburb of New Delhi, India, Tihar prison is a sprawling, overcrowded institution housing some 10,000 inmates, only 1000 of whom have actually been convicted of a crime. The other 9000 are simply "under trials," accused of everything f... read more leave a comment