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| Yoga for prison inmates is no longer a stretch |
| By dailytitan.com |
| Published: 08/13/2013 |
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CHICAGO — Ten yoga mats, foam support blocks and a qualified instructor awaited the women who filed quietly into the recreation room, slipped off their shoes and stood in place on the mats, prepared for the stretching routine to begin. The only remarkable element among the trappings of this beginners’ yoga class was its location: Inside the barbed wire fence of the Cook County Jail. The women prepared to stretch were inmates. Instead of yoga pants, they wore Department of Corrections-issued pink and gray uniforms. Yoga and meditation sessions have been a mainstay in the women’s jail for six years, since a group of volunteers from a local nonprofit that encourages yoga as an element of rehabilitation started showing up, mats in tow, and leading classes for all female inmates, said Alisa Kannett, an administrator for the nonprofit group Yoga for Recovery. Read More. |
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