Screening: Friday, March 27, 2009, 9:00 p.m. An overcrowded maximum-security prison is the end of the line in Alabama’s correctional system. But some of the men there are changed forever by the ...

Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Bessemer, Ala., that houses the worst offenders in America’s direst state prison system, does not seem a likely venue for a Buddhist ...

A prison in Alabama is turning to an ancient tradition to quell violence and help inmates cope with life behind bars. It’s called Vipassana meditation. The new film Dhamma Brothers chronicles the ...

What happens when you put a group of maximum-security prison inmates through the rigors of a 10-day Buddhism boot camp? This is the intriguing premise of The Dhamma Brothers, a slow-moving documentary ...

The question of how convicted criminals should spend their time while incarcerated is one of those evergreen issues on talk radio or in the stump speeches of get-tough politicians. Prison is ...

Ready to watch 'The Dhamma Brothers' on any device? Here are streaming and cable services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can find the right fit. In the US, you can currently ...

"The Dhamma Brothers" looks at 36 hardened criminals, many of them murderers, who participate in an intensive, 10-day Buddhist meditation course taught by two Australians in an Alabama maximum ...

Representing the sort of truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale that that seems rife for dramatization, this documentary relates the unlikely tale of a program at an Alabama maximum-security prison in ...

What happens when you put a group of maximum-security prison inmates through the rigors of a 10-day Buddhism boot camp? This is the intriguing premise of The Dhamma Brothers, a slow-moving documentary ...

East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison-the end of the line in Alabama's correctional system-is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program ...