Notes from the Handbasket

A church runs background checks on all volunteers who have anything to do with children in an effort to protect the kids. Everyone does it. ...

Writing at the California Political Review, Katie Modisitt shows us that a focus on private prison problems is too narrow. In mid-August,...

The Washington Department of Corrections wants to stop using the word 'offender' when referring to those who are incarcerated. Ac...

Everyone has ideas about what prisons should be like. Some want them to be tougher -- no TVs, hard labor, solitary confinement with no books...

In  When Jesus Looks like a Sex Offender , Hugh Hollowell writes about a conversation he had with a deacon from another church. “What do y...

Lenore Skenazy at Free Range Kids passes along a story about requirements for parents who want to volunteer at a Maryland school. All sch...

Researchers looked at this fact... In the United States today, leaving children unsupervised is grounds for moral outrage and can lead to...