The two-month experiment taking place in Okazaki Medical Prison is the first of its kind to apply the practice inside a detention centre of this kind, where inmates with physical or mental disabilities are housed.

The team behind the experiment hope that it will pave the way for future research, since mindfulness as a rehabilitation method has been largely understudied. Its main foothold is in the juvenile detention system, where it was adopted in 2011.

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