“Meditation is a tool that can help prisoners in difficult mental states. While practicing meditation, the prisoner is solely focuses on himself and his thoughts, attentive to himself, aware of himself, connected to his subconscious and his simplest and innermost desires as a person.

During meditation class, the prisoner has an opportunity to look within himself and find internal peace, enabling him to have insights regarding things that have happened in his prison wing, the therapy group, or within himself.

Thanks to the meditation class and the volunteer who teaches and directs it, inmates create this enabling space for themselves. Prisoners say that they don’t just practice with the volunteer, and that they use the techniques that they have learned in class also during the week, which shows that meditation helps them focus, release tensions, and create a peaceful state within themselves. Meditation is an important, unique tool that differs from other tools inmates are given. It is a positive and special project and should therefore be retained.”