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November 27, 2009: Wintley Phipps
For this Grammy-nominated singer and Seventh-day Adventist pastor, music is both a ministry and "the most powerful way of impressing the human mind with hope." (Originally aired April 10, 2009)
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May 22, 2009: Communities in Prison
Today there are two million inmates in US prisons and jails, and according to social policy analyst Eric Cadora our overdependence on criminal justice is threatening our cities, communities, and neighborhoods.
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January 30, 2009: Juvenile Life Without Parole
The US is the only Western democracy that still sentences youthful offenders to life in prison without parole for serious crimes. But there is growing resistance to that.
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A story about a former state legislator who believed the answer to crime was more and more prisons -- until he got locked up himself. Now he's leading a faith-based program for prisoner rehabilitation, and he says it works.
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July 27, 2007: Exonerated Prisoners
There are more than two million people serving hard time in America's state and federal prisons. However, some of the incarcerated - how many, no one really knows for sure - shouldn't be behind bars. They are innocent people wrongfully convicted and sent to prison for crimes they did not commit.
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