News release from the Lincoln Co. Sheriff’s Office. Over the past few months the Lincoln County jail staff, in coordination with Jail Counselor Dennis Buckmaster and community volunteers, have been providing yoga classes to the female inmates. The goal of this program is to decrease stress levels of inmates as well as decrease the incidence of violence and offender conflict within the jail. Over the course of the program 29 female inmates participated in 129 hours of class time with yoga instructors. In that period of time reports of incidents involving female inmates was reduced by 4.6% compared to the three month period before programming began. With the success of the first round of yoga classes the jail will be providing this class to male inmates as well as female inmates in the near future.
