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Prisons are expected to undertake human engineering. The aim is to influence and modify

perceptions, attitudes and behaviour of those who are locked inside those highly guarded walls.

➢ OUTCOME

Introducing reformation activities in Pondicherry Prison has helped prisoners in

inexplicable manner where people who haven’t spoken in years came out and shared their

stories just because they were given liberty and provided a space for emotional expression

A key and essential approach in effective prison reform is to help inmates recognize and

put on their new, better identity as spiritual beings and it can help rid of negative, self-
destructive while connecting them to something bigger than their circumstances. People can

begin to turn their lives around if they are helped to gain the true vision of themselves, which
we all earnestly desire to live. The primary role of a spiritual and deeper inclination in

correction is not to change a prisoner’s behaviour or reduce recidivism, but rather to buffer and

prevent the further loss of dignity and humanity of those who are placed in the inherently
dehumanizing conditions of prison.

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