How it started
Recently a woman reached out to me and told me about her son who has been incarcerated for the last three years. After finishing, The Way Out of Suffering, she gave the book to her son to read. Her touching story of how it brought him out of his depression, helped him accept and make peace with his circumstances, and how he is now making the most of his time by working on his education and also mentoring other inmates, moved me to tears and inspired me to launch the Peaceful Prisoners Program.

I’ve always known the power of these teachings. I have seen how meditation and mindfulness programs have transformed some of the most dangerous prisons into some of the safest. And I know that there are few places where these teachings are more needed than in our jails and prisons. When our bodies are locked up, we must be able to free our mind. Many of these prisoners will reenter our society one day. Let’s make sure they have the tools to rehabilitate and become proud members of our communities.