This article examines the effectiveness of the Eight week Mindfulness Based CognitiveTherapy course for Depression within the prison population. Prisons see higher rates of mental ill health across the spectrum and we were interested to see how a manualised mindfulness approach to treating depression, a major cause of ill health, would affect this cohort.
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