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Teaching Yoga inside Arkansas' Toughest Prison with Tracy Davis


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Tracy Davis is a Volunteer Yoga Teacher inside Arkansas' Toughest Prison. Davis met Jerome Bargo after he won a years-long battle in federal court to allow practicing yoga in Arkansas' prisons, which he'd escaped multiple times. His last escape, in 1988, earned him spots on America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries. After being on the run for 15 years, someone recognized him from TV in a restaurant—and he was sent to Arkansas' Varner Unit high-security state prison where he's serving a 140-year sentence. In Varner he found yoga, and it changed his life. Tracy joins host @linds.tucker to talk about how the practice is transforming the lives of our society's most forgotten population: prisoners.
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