With shrinking endowments and funding cutbacks, most colleges would be wary of launching new initiatives. But two months ago, the New York Times repor...
David Jones | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York
It's time to be really tough on criminals. Let's make it so they have to get a job when they get out of jail -- so they can suffer like the rest of us.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The man at the gas station who hands over Marlboro Lights is never called the scum of the earth. The makers of Oxycontin, Valium, and Vicodin -- the biggest drug dealers in the word -- spend no time in prison cells.
Los Angeles Times | Nicholas Riccardi | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
After decades of pursuing lock-'em-up policies, states are scrambling to reduce their prison populations in the face of tight budgets, making fundamen...
foxnews.com | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
The federal government mistakenly sent out stimulus checks to 1,700 inmates, the Social Security Administration said Tuesday -- a $425,000 error. ...
Pamela Gerloff | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Let's start changing our lock-up facilities into places that actually cause inmates to change their behavior -- so that when they leave them they never go back.
Glenn Close | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living
It was a chilly April day when I arrived at the Fishkill Correctional Facility. I was there to help tell an amazing story: The story of two men, brought together by a little, female, yellow Lab called Frankie.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact