The Incredible Vegan Prison Experiment
In the late 1990s, San Bernardino County was short on prison space and agreed to open an experimental facility called Victor Valley MCCF.
The Experiment: They would feed the inmates a vegan diet.
The Result: They found that the recidivism rate of prisoners (rate of re-arrest) went from the state average of 95% to a 2%!
Food for thought:
-The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
- Could we really change the rate of crime or the success of criminal rehabilitation just by diet changes? Why yes or why not?
Online resources:
https://www.prisonerresource.com/recidivism/vegan-diet-impacts-recidivism/
Identify the reasons why this experiment yielded this result. Explore the biological, social, emotional and spiritual factors that could account for this collective behavioral change. Use your own background (ethnic, cultural, educational) to evaluate these findings.