The Dhamma Brothers
"In 2002, Donaldson Correctional Facility [near Birmingham, Alabama] became the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting ten days. The Dhamma Brothers tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of 36 prison inmates who enter this arduous and intensive program. It challenges assumptions about the nature of prisons as places of punishment rather than rehabilitation and raises the question: is it possible for these men, some of who have committed horrendous crimes, to change?"
- Trailer
- "Staring at Death, and Finding Their Bliss" (Whitney Joiner, New York Times, Sep. 13, 2007)
- "Purpose and Method of Vipassana Meditation" (Shinzen Young)
