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State of Grace: How Buddhist Teachings Transformed a Maximum Security Prison in Alabama

by Matt Mazur

[11.Apr.08] :. In her new documentary, Jenny Phillips frames the daily, shackled grind of prisoners' lives with social injustices, but also investigates what it is like to be a prisoner doing hard time in the South choosing to practice guided Buddhist meditation techniques.

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