Freedom Project

Alejandra Suarez, Dug Y. Lee, Christopher Rowe, Alex Anthony Gomez, Elise Murowchick and Patricia L. Linn

SAGE Open, 2014, vol. 4, issue 1, 2158244013516154

Abstract: Freedom Project trains prisoners in nonviolent communication and meditation. Two complementary studies of its effects are reported in this article. The first study is correlational; we found decreased recidivism rates among prisoners trained by Freedom Project compared with recidivism rates in Washington state. The second study compared trained prisoners with a matched-pair control group and found improvement in self-reported anger, self-compassion, and certain forms of mindfulness among the trained group. Ratings of role-plays simulating difficult interactions show increased social skills among the group trained by Freedom Project than in the matched controls.

Keywords: nonviolent communication; prison; recidivism; anger; mindfulness; social skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/2158244013516154

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