Doing Time, Doing Vipassana (1997)

Directed by

Ayelet Menahemi

Genre

documentary film

Country

Israel

Runtime

52 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows how a meditation technique called Vipassana is used to rehabilitate inmates at a notoriously harsh prison in India. It follows prisoners as they practice the method and talks to the prison officials who support the program.

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What happens

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 Israeli independent documentary film by Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel. The film is about the application of the vipassana meditation technique taught by S. N. Goenka to prisoner rehabilitation at Tihar Jail in India (which was reputed to be an exceptionally harsh prison). The film inspired other correctional facilities such as the North Rehabilitation Facility in Seattle to use Vipassana as a means of rehabilitation. Kiran Bedi, former Inspector General of Prisons for New Delhi, appears in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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