‘The Dhamma Brothers’ – Higher Consciousness Film

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.
Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host
of convicts locked away from the outside world for life. But for some of these men, a spark is
ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended
Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting
ten days.
THE DHAMMA BROTHERS tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it
closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correction Facility
who enter into this arduous and intensive program. This film, with the power to dismantle
stereotypes about men behind prison bars also, in the words of Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man
Walking), “gives you hope for the human race.”