T.M. of benefit to criminals?
PA Wellington Transcendental Meditation techniques will be advocated for rehabilitating criminals, during working party hearings later this month by the Penal Policy Review Committee. Giving evidence at committee hearings in Auckland and Wellington will be a former Indian Supreme Court judge for seven years in the 1.9705, Mr Justice V. K.. R, Iyer. • One of ’ the world's first judges to specify T.M. in. court judgments, he is a former Home Minister of Kerala state and treasurer of
the International Association of Judges. Backing his assertion that T.M. relieves inner tensions behind criminal tendencies and creates a public conciousness against crime, will be studies made in United States prisons. Prisoners taught T.M. at four United States prisons had significantly lower rates of re-offending than fellow inmates, according to one set of studies. Mr Justice Iyer will give evidence.as part of a submission from the New Zealand Society for the World Government of the age of Enlightenment
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