Nature videos: Researchers figure out how to calm inmates in solitary confinement

[C C]

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-inma...story.html

EXCERPT: A study has found a novel way to reduce violence by prisoners in solitary confinement: Show them nature videos. Prisoners who viewed ocean waves, waterfalls, aquariums and other serene images were 26% less likely to be disciplined for violence than a control group that did not watch the videos, according to research led by a forest ecologist and published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment....

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[Magical Realist]

I was hoping they'd stopped solitary confinement by now. But watching nature films is certainly a step in the right direction.