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A prison term does not necessarily translate to freedom from addiction. A person can fall right back into addiction as soon as the opportunity arises, if they have never had the opportunity to deal with their addiction while in prison. Life Challenge believes in reaching out to this ‘captive’ audience and helping them while they are in prison.
An extremely high percentage of people are in prisons because of addiction related crimes. Either the crime was committed while under the influence of drugs & alcohol or fueled for the need of money to indulge in their addictions. From petty robberies to planned mafia activities or rape, murder and other heinous crimes, the persons committing the crime are under the control of the mind altering poison called addiction.
Life Challenge’s Prison Freedom Mission was launched in March 2011 with the first Addiction Awareness Seminar held inside Tihar Jail, the largest jail in South Asia. One thousand inmates attended the seminar.
The seminar was mainly focused towards helping the men realize that addiction was a ruthless and powerful enemy that would not let go of its victims even after a prison term. The open doors to the prison system led to Life Challenge exploring more possibilities of visiting other jails. The jail officials expressed a desire to have more of Life Challenge’s interaction in helping them to fight the evil nexus of addiction & crime.
Since then Life Challenge has conducted prison outreaches in different parts of Rajasthan, Nagaland, Mizoram, South India and also Sri Lanka. A 3 day prison freedom camp was also conducted inside one of the Rajasthan jails. Prison officials have warmly welcomed the help and assistance of Life Challenge due to the high prevalence of drugs and alcohol among the inmates.
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