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Jo Jarvis is an Australian woman who teaches meditation, including Vedic meditation, in prisons and has a background in journalism.

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Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island

And I knew that I wasn't emotionally capable of going and doing a job like that and I really wasn't emotionally capable of doing very much.

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Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island

You're going to get that job.

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Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island

I was actually, you know, told that I was going to get the job and they're like, you really shouldn't leave.

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Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island

And then as you were making your way in this career in journalism, Jo, you got the news that your younger brother Sam had died suddenly.

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Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island

You ended up joining the ABC as a cadet reporter and was sent to Darwin.

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Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island

into that journalism school and I was curious, you know, and I actually knew quite a bit about current affairs.

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Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island

But he encouraged me strongly to get into journalism and to go and apply to the journalism school in South Australia at the South Australian University.