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A distinctively eastern approach to alternative sentencing in Missouri

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader forwarded to me this interesting story from the Washington Post which is headlined "From incarceration to meditation in Missouri: For 14 years, guru has run alternative program for parolees." Here is how the piece gets started: It was a routine business conference for the judge: Agendas.  Handshakes.  Business cards.  But then something kind of mystical happened. David Mason was approached by a man wearing a crisp suit with a neatly pointed kerchief in his breast pocket. In a measured Indian accent, the man said he, too, was a lawyer and knew all about the judge and his enlightened views on criminal rehabilitation.  He wanted to tell him about the power of meditation in prisons. The man was Farrokh Anklesaria.  He was a direct student of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and he'd been sent around the world by him to bring meditation to convicts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).