Mindfulness and Rehabilitation: Teaching Yoga and Meditation to Young Men at an Alternative to Incarceration Program

• In Event: Rehabilitation in the Punitive Era: Reducing Recidivism with Dance, Art, Yoga, and Meditation

Abstract

Carla will discussion her findings from a nine month qualitative study of a mindfulness-based intervention program at an Alternative to Incarceration (ATI) program serving young men 16-24 charged with felonies. Findings suggest that participants benefited from the intervention in regards to reducing stress and improving emotion regulation. In addition, participants spoke about the importance of an embodied practice for assisting them with anger management and impulse control, important factors that can aid desistance.

Author

• Carla J. Barrett, John Jay College of Criminal Justice