The essence of this policy will be based on the principles of self responsibility’, ‘oneness’, ‘compassion’, and ‘community’.

There are interesting new ideas that can have profound influences on prisoners; see http://www.yogainprisontrust.org

Food Supplements reduce violence:

A study was carried out at (UK) Aylesbury Young Offenders Institute by the research charity Natural Justice led by Bernard Gesch, a senior research scientist at Oxford University’s physiology department. In a blind trial, one group of prisoners were given a multi-vitamin mineral and fatty acid supplement while another group were given dummy pills. Among those taking the supplements, violent incidents were reduced by more than a third…..

The Prison Service has said it will not fund further research into prison food even though the study found that changing inmates’ diets cut violent behaviour by 35%!!!!

Link to Diet Causes Violence.

The Awareness Party recommends that much consideration goes into such area as diet, yoga, meditation, and the increased community support that is needed to reduce violence in our community. The social perspective of victimhood and blame are detrimental to healing our society, and promoting compassionate self responsibility is the way to move forward.