Alternative Retreat Destination: Prison

Dressed in jade clothing with plain design and coarse texture, with an ID number on her chest, a woman sits in solitary confinement, cross-legged, gazing out the window. The room is less than five square meters, and has basic facilities like a toilet, washbowl and a table. A food tray shoved in through a wicket on the metal door breaks the silence. This isn’t about Park Geun-hye’s life in prison. This is about a spiritual retreat that people enter by choice. “Prison Inside Me” is a program at