Culture Columns

The Adobe Fund for Design program will provides up to $10 million in grants and investments to build a network of development for Creative Cloud, starting with Adobe XD.

Texas's reforms, including diversion programs for low-level drug offenders, increased attention to rehabilitation and work readiness, and other “second chance” measures, reduced recidivism and the incarceration rate. The federal Justice Department should take notice.

At night, the blooms seem to vibrate transcendently. You smell dense aromas of the chocolate, vanilla, jasmine, and lemon scents of the dancing-lady orchids. Especially during these Orchid Evenings, the senses delight.

While policy changes and a move away from for-profit prison systems will go a long way in aligning America’s prisons with those of more progressive countries, education remains a key driver in preventing citizens from going to jail in the first place, in becoming more attractive prospects for hire, and in reducing recidivism.

The NYBG presents another spectacular celebration of one of the most alluring, sensual, and mysterious of flower exotics, the orchid.

The simple act of learning what is good to put in your body and how to budget for the healthy food you need, along with how to prepare it, should be taught not only in every prison, but in every school and in every household in America. One Arkansas program for female inmates is lighting the way.

The care of a family should not be a solo venture that falls on one woman's shoulders. In the best of circumstances, it should be shared among immediate and extended family and the greater community. If the burden were lightened and shared, the result might be that we'd see fewer women – and men – behind bars.

From understaffing to high suicide rates, youth are underserved in juvenile justice system.

The quality of the wines and the treats served brought back visions of Tuscany, Italy.

The biggest contributing factor involved in foodborne illness in prisons is food left at room temperature too long.