While the Prospect can't offer you montages of beautiful Latin babies set to the music of Tito Puente, we do have some good news about the recession. Adam Serwer writes that Kansas' justice system is reacting to budget shortfalls by prioritizing rehabilitation over retribution. Rather than focus on punishment, corrections officers are being encouraged to act like social workers in order to keep prison populations -- and costs -- down.
Meanwhile, Robert Kuttner offers some advice to Obama regarding the upcoming G-20 conference.
And Sarah Posner says that the honeymoon may finally be over for Obama and evangelical "centrists."
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