The Inside Peace documentary follows a group of inmates doing time in a Texas jail as they embark on a journey of personal discovery while struggling with society’s roadblocks and dangers.

Their journey is sparked by the “Peace Class,” a series of video-based workshops that help participants discover their own inner strength and personal peace. Now called the Peace Education Program, The Prem Rawat Foundation makes these workshops freely available. They have benefited more than 60,000 people in correctional systems in 40 countries, winning praise from officials for improving inmate behavior, reducing recidivism, and other positive outcomes.

“When inmates look inward, something positive happens” – San Antonio Express-News

About Inside Peace

Four years in the making, Inside Peace is a feature documentary that focuses on four men incarcerated at the Dominguez State Jail in San Antonio, Texas, who embark on a journey of self-discovery.

With lives marked by generations of violence, addiction, and poor social conditions, they attend a Peace Class and begin the struggle to discover their humanity and rebuild their lives from the inside out.

Trinidad, David, Chase, and Jake grew up in neighborhoods with the same layers of deprivation that produce most incarcerated men and women in the United States: lack of education, poverty, joblessness, unstable family lives and a reliance on crime to survive.

All identified with the tough exteriors they presented to the world. Trinidad, a brutal street fighter. David, from his teens, a small-time drug dealer. Chase, a misfit, out of place his whole life. Jake, born into a family of addicts, addicted at an early age. They spent most of their youth and adult lives in and out of prison.

Inside Peace is a window into the hearts and minds of these men who chose to break this life-long cycle of negativity. With a supporting cast of fellow inmates, prison officials, experts and family members, the film follows these men as they learn to reintegrate with life by relying on the self-worth, inner strengths and understandings discovered in the Peace Class.

When released from jail, life becomes more treacherous as they try to live in a world filled with conflict, rejection and hostility. Faced with these familiar roadblocks at every turn, they must fight past temptations — those that led them to failure and jail in the first place.

If they can change the only belief system they’ve ever known and succeed in understanding their value as a human being, they just might have a chance at living better lives