Farrokh Anklesaria, President, TESP
Enlightened Sentencing Project Office
Learning to meditate
Interviews from February 2002
The Anklesaria's providing instruction
to probationers at the TM Center
"I was homeless, but now found myself a job.
I think more clearly now."
Terrance: "I’ve found that TM has brought me to a closer state of consciousness and awareness of my self."
"I have better relations with my kids...
I have abstained from the use of drugs and alcohol”
Her counselor said: “Girl, I can really tell the change in you”.
"I’ve been clean now 6 months,19 days 7 hrs."
After learning to meditate, upon realizing that
a store clerk gave him $5 too much in change,
he want back to return it..
"Before, I would have just stuck it in my pocket...."
Raymond: "I have a quick temper but I quit the Anger Management class because I wasn’t getting enough out of the program....Sit around in a circle and talk..
With the TM class there is peace."
Roslyn Morgan, Probation and Parole Officer
"We don't have problems with the meditating group"
Honorable Judge Anna C. Forder
"The recidivism rate among the graduates is very low"
Hon. Judge Henry E. Autrey, Circuit Judge
"TM is one of the most, if not the most,
effective tool that a judge has in his arsenal
to help combat criminal behavior."
Daniel Spring, Probation and Parole Officer
"The results are there, and can't be faked."
"My wife and I learned the technique."
Meditating probationers
have a very low recidivism rate
Ruffina F. Anklesaria, Project Manager
The Enlightened Sentencing Project