by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 17, 2016 | News
Effective criminal justice reform must address mental illness as a contributing factor to incarceration and recidivism, a bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee hearing emphasized last week. “On a daily basis, individuals … are literally running into the...
by Brian Kaylor | Feb 16, 2016 | News
Baptist leaders in the former Soviet-bloc country of Georgia are speaking out against a proposed national bill that would criminalize insulting a religion or religious leaders. They fear the bill against blasphemy would be used against them and other minority faiths...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 16, 2016 | News
State of the State addresses for 2016, largely overshadowed by the presidential election, gave sustained attention to economic recovery and education. Nearly every governor framed their address around recovering from the “Great Recession,” highlighting the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 15, 2016 | News
Electronic companies have policies in place against using forced and child labor, but most fail to ensure that these guidelines are followed in all production stages, according to a Baptist World Aid Australia report. These findings were part of a BWA Australia...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 10, 2016 | News
Lengthy sentences for drug offenses are “one of the key drivers” to overcrowded prisons, bursting budgets and contributing to “a state of crisis” within the federal prison system. These conclusions were set forth by a bipartisan task force that...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 9, 2016 | News
Thriving and surviving were two contrasting trends experienced by U.S. congregations in 2015, according to a report from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research’s Faith Communities Today (FACT) initiative. The report is based on surveys of congregations...
