For years, the Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, had a reputation for being one of the country's most dangerous prisons: Far from offering any kind of rehabilitation, Donaldson was generally considered by corrections officers and inmates alike as a mere breeding ground for further violence. So who would ever believe this Alabama hell-hole would one day foster one of the most progressive rehabilitation programs in the world? Strange, but true. In 2002, inspired by a successful experiment in Tihar Prison outside of New Dehli, India (and the subject of the 1997 documentary DOING TIME, DOING VIPASSANA), Dr. Ron Cavanaugh, director of Treatment for the...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
76 mins