LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
determine whether “a concentrated
meditation program deployed at
the company level can yield savings in health care costs.” On that
point, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini
— who brought meditation and
yoga to Aetna after they helped him
recover from a serious skiing accident — offers a profile in leadership: “I may be weird, but I’m also
in charge of the company.”
Elsewhere in the issue, Radley
Balko takes a close look at prosecutorial misconduct and lack of accountability in several local and state judiciaries, with a focus on Louisiana.
Radley hears from John Thompson, who was wrongly convicted
twice and spent 18 years at the
Louisiana State Penitentiary, 14 of
them on death row. His death warrant was signed eight times; when
his attorneys finally found the evidence that cleared him — evidence
his prosecutors had known about
for years — he was only weeks
away from execution.
Radley’s conversations with local
law officials reveal major obstacles
preventing them from imposing
any real accountability on wayward
prosecutors. As Louisiana’s chief
of the Office of Disciplinary Coun-
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As chief medical officer
Ashley Anderson Jr. puts
it: ‘a healthy workforce is a
productive workforce.’”
sel says, in his 17 years on the job
he can only recall three occasions
when a prosecutor was disciplined
for misconduct.
“This isn’t about bad men,
though they were most assuredly
bad men,” says the wrongly-convicted Thompson. “It’s about a system that is void of integrity. Mistakes can happen. But if you don’t
do anything to stop them from happening again, you can’t keep calling
them mistakes.”
Finally, as part of our ongoing coverage of stress, we’re featuring an infographic showing some of the most
worrying statistics on the personal,
economic and social costs of
overwork and burnout.
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