We can live our lives hating others, and I guarantee you it will never help you live a better life, nor will it ever change anything. We must stop; we must analyze the root of the problem. We can put many programs in place to help color communities be all that God has created them to be, IN HIS IMAGE. But if all we do is hate, it will never fix anything; it will only give those who hate us more reason to hate us.

Hoy en día, a la mayoría de las empresas solo les importa el resultado final. Por lo tanto, los salarios de los empleados, la atención médica, la licencia familiar y el bienestar de los empleados son intrascendentes. Estas compañías creen que pagar más del salario mínimo de siete dólares tendría un impacto negativo drástico en sus resultados. Sin embargo, ignoran el costo en que incurren por el cambio en su personal, la menor producción y el abuso de la licencia por enfermedad. Después de todo, si a la empresa no le importa, ¿por qué deberían preocuparse los empleados? Por lo tanto, como empresarios, nuestra misión era ser excelente, tratar a nuestros clientes con respeto y darles mas de un dólar de servicio por un dólar de su pago.

The impact of layoffs goes ­beyond suicide, drug overdosing, and drinking, however. Overall, the death rate for an unemployed person is 63 percent higher than for someone with a job, according to findings in the journal Social Science & Medicine. Now do the math: Layoff-related deaths could far outnumber the 60,400 coronavirus deaths predicted by the University of Washington researchers. This comparison isn't meant to understate the horror of the coronavirus for those who get it and their families." But heavy-handed state edicts to close all "nonessential businesses" need to be reassessed in light of the predictable harm to the lives, livelihoods, and health of the uninfected."

So, if Warden Cain was able to institute reforms that transformed the most violent bloodiest prison in America into a safe prison, demonstrating that rehabilitation is possible, then why is it not done in any other prison? The answer is simple: we preferably warehouse than rehabilitate. 

In the year 2009, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates held a dinner in New York City to plan out how they and others could give more of their wealth to make a difference in the world. A year later, in 2010, they announced the Giving Pledge, a campaign that would promote philanthropy.  

At Angola, I found people that were going to die in that place yet were full of joy and knew the meaning of their lives. I discovered that they had a peace that I did not find among many in the free world. These men were in prison physically but free in spirit.