“Even our hardest prisoners are being given free yoga lessons so they can find inner peace”: Newspaper framing of prison yoga programs from 1981 to 2022

Yoga programs are a growing part of daily life in prisons around the globe. Yet, scholars have not deeply considered the extent to which mass media report upon, or the ways in which they frame, these interventions. We address this absence through an analysis of English-language newspaper written reportage on prison yoga from 1981 until 2022, comprising a total of 1448 unique articles originating from 31 countries. After a brief analysis of …