I am so tired of the ‘crime solved by mindfullness’ stories that sugarcoat coercive systems of oppression. 

Prison with cats for prisoners is still prison

Prison with theatre groups is still prison

School with meditation instead of detention is stil school

Your stories about how prisoners and students got more docile are not success stories. If anything they’re proof that you made a coercive system more effective at it’s coercion. 

An oppressive system with some amount of ‘progressive’ policy sprinkled over it is still an oppressive system. End off.