Some two million Americans are in jail or in prison. Except for the occasional exposZ, what happens to them is hidden from the rest of us. Is it possible to develop and instill a professional ethic for prison personnel that, in partnership with formal regulatory constraints, will mediate relations among officers, staff, and inmates, or are the failures of imprisonment as an ethically-constrained institution so deeply etched into its structure that no professional ethic is possible? The con...

Y vi un cielo nuevo y una tierra nueva; porque el primer cielo y la primera tierra pasaron, y ya no había mar.Hagamos la siguiente pregunta: ¿dónde pasarán los creyentes la eternidad? No estamos pensando ahora en el "cielo", la ubicación de los creyentes en el estado intermedio. Estamos pensando, en cambio, en la ubicación final, después de la Segunda Venida, el lugar al que se refiere como "un cielo nuevo y una tierra nueva" (Isaías 65:17; 66:22; 2 Pedro 3:13; Apocalipsis 21:1). E...

This report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.Drawing from a wealth of research that suggests ways of diagnosing and solving the psychological and social constraints to development, the World Development Report identifies new p...

A team of lawyers uses a little-known legal writ to fight and overturn the conviction of Fred Korematsu, unjustly sentenced for resisting the WWII mass incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The play draws much inspiration from Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and his Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai (University of Washington Press 2015) and Justice Delayed by Peter Irons (Wesleyan University Press 1989).Includes a conversation with playwright Jeanne S...