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Farming at Leavenworth Prison Trains Inmates, Feeds Needy

A fresh foods program at the Leavenworth Penitentiary has inmates growing a quarter million pounds of produce every year, which produces free healthy food for them, and more than 80,000 pounds in donations to help feed the needy throughout Kansas City.

Meditation Class Helps Lower Violence at Alabama Prison

A prison outside Birmingham has become the model for a meditation program that officials say helps inmates learn the self control and social skills they never got in the outside world. About 10 percent of the prison's inmates have completed the program, which really works.

One Graduate's Experiment in Living Without Money

Mark Boyle has turned his life into a radical experiment and pledged to live without cash, credit cards, loans or any other form of finance. The British economics graduate was inspired by Gandhi's call to be the change you want to see in the world.

Judge Gives Immigrant in Same-Sex Marriage a Reprieve From Deportation

An immigration judge in Newark on Friday suspended the deportation of a Venezuelan man who is married to an American man, responding to an unusual signal this week from the Obama administration that it is exploring legal avenues for recognizing same-sex marriages in immigration cases.