About the Enlightened Sentencing Project in St. Louis, Missouri
Representative Sue Shear, Missouri State Legislature:
"I see this as a wonderful alternative to imprisonment... So I congratulate the whole TM movement and all the people involved in it."
http://enlightenedsentencing.com/wmv/TespRepSueShear.wmv (video)
http://enlightenedsentencing.com/audio/RepShearCongrats.wav (audeo)
The Honorable Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri
"I see TM as yet another tool that Judges can use in the rehabilitation of criminal offenders who come before them."
http://enlightenedsentencing.com/wmv/TespJudgeSLimbaugh.wmv (video)
http://enlightenedsentencing.com/WAV/TespJudgeSLimbaugh.wav (audio)
The Honorable Henry E. Autrey, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Missouri:
"I would urge judges who are in our system, whose duty it is to maintain order, and to see to it that rules of society are kept and maintained, to consider and in fact use TM as one of your tools within your arsenal to deal with those individuals who come before you."
http://enlightenedsentencing.com/wmv/TespJudgeHAutrey.wmv (video)
http://enlightenedsentencing.com/wav/TespJudgeHAutrey.wav (audeo)
The Honorable Judge David C. Mason, 22nd Judicial Circuit Court of St. Louis, Missouri addresses graduates of the The Enlightened Sentencing Project in Dec. 9, 2009
http://www.enlightenedsentencing.org/ (scroll down for 10-minute video) (direct link in YouTube: https://youtu.be/2b4oG5x18h0)
Articles:
Peace and Punishment
St. Louis judges turn to Transcendental Meditation to rehab convicted felons
By Kristen Hinman, Kristen.Hinman@riverfronttimes.com, March 8, 2006
Jennifer Silverberg, Ex-con Keith Mason says TM has made him "a glowing man."
Keith Mason used to begin every day with a dime bag of marijuana. Nowadays, the north St. Louis man rises early and meditates upon the shaggy brown carpet at the foot of his bed. www.riverfronttimes.com/2006-03-08/news/peace-and-punishment/full/
Transcendental Meditation as Prisoner Probation, February 01, 2002
Reporter Shula Newman reports on an effort by some judges in St. Louis to get prisoners to learn transcendental meditation as a condition of their probation. While the judges and others say the results have been overwhelmingly positive, some civil libertarians object.
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