Several men in bright-orange outfits sink into fluffy cushions for daily meditation. They remove their shoes, close their eyes, slow their breathing to a languorous pace.
The room is still and serene on this recent afternoon as they head down Buddha's Eight-Fold Path toward the Four Noble Truths -- until the material world crashes in.
"Attention all residents!" crackles a loudspeaker. "Report back to your dorms! In-room head count!"
Inhale, exhale. Such is enlightenment, jailhouse-style.
Here, at the Northern Rehabilitation Facility, a minimum-security jail in Shoreline, Buddhist meditation -- and its quest for freedom from suffering -- is seemingly at odds with incarceration.
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