Just as Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter branded her in the eyes of society, the icon publicly signals a facility’s wrongdoing. But how fair is the system that applies this modern-day brand of ...

Ain’t nothing more powerful than love.

A child is born, and on the day Hester is publicly humiliated and made to wear a scarlet letter, her husband appears after a year with Indians. Calling himself Chillingworth (Robert Duvall), he ...