This dissertation entitled ‘A Development of Prisoner’s Quality of Life through the Integrated Buddhism’ has three objectives: 1) to study the states of problem and the prisoner's quality of life in the Department of Corrections, 2) to study the processes of development of the prisoner's quality of life according to Buddhism, and 3) to propose the alternative guidelines to develop the prisoners’ quality of life through the integrated Buddhism. This is a mixed method research, qualitative and quantitative. In this research, the descriptive analysis of data was also used.

              The research findings were found that:

              The states of problem and prisoner’s quality of life in the Department of Corrections were shown that since they have been being controlled in the cell then their privacy has been also limited resulting in lacking the physical and mental healthiness where they become hopeless and dismal whereby such situations have been giving rise to high depression and defeated. As a result of that, they could not understand their value of life where the wrong view brings about no-faith in the Kamma and its law. In this the prison’s cell, they have been confronted by the problem of adaptation, disciplinary and respect for the regulations despite of the Department of Corrections’ proper arrangement of ways of living life in accordance with the international standard. Such conditions has no impact for their mental development at all.

              As far as the processes to develop the prisoner’s quality of life through the integrated Buddhism are concerned, the project named ‘Dhamma Prison Project of Rayong Central Prison, Rayong Provincial, which is done through Buddhist teachings in order to develop the quality of life by means of Dhamma practices based on four foundations of mindfulness, body, feeling, mind and mind-objects including Threefold Training, precepts, concentration and wisdom, four virtues wheeling one to prosperity, living in a suitable region, association with good people, setting oneself in the right course, and having formerly done meritorious deeds and virtues that protect the world, moral shame and moral dread, is purposely taken by a researcher in the research.

              In the research, guidelines to develop the prisoner’s quality of life done through the integrated Buddhism were found that in the theory they was integrated through the above mentioned Buddhist teachings and western ideas on the criminology and in the practical aspect they were integrated through the ideas and principles of remedy and rehabilitation according to the international standard where their mind is implanted through Buddhist virtues and Dhamma practices in the prison’s project. New body of knowledge gained from this research can be used as alternative guidelines to develop the individual and social quality of life.

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