A Better Way Foundation

04/16/2015

Legality and morality are rising issues for architects who design solitary-confinement cells and death chambers.

04/07/2015

In this in-depth talk, ethnographer and leadership expert Simon Sinek reveals the hidden dynamics that inspire leadership and trust. In biological terms, lea...

03/27/2015

Latinos have been paying dearly, sometimes with their own lives, for American prohibition without having a seat at the policy making table....

03/26/2015

Reform advocates are making a compelling case for policies that take aim at mass incarceration.

03/21/2015

Submitted by the Committee on Community Partnerships and Grassroots Power and the Executive CouncilIT IS NO COINCIDENCE that the total population in the United States’ correctional system has exploded in the decades since the business of for-profit incarceration was born. Between 1980 and 2011 the n…

03/18/2015

The legal battle to destroy the ACA (Obamacare) has taken a bizarre turn.

03/09/2015

The Boston Police Department (BPD) has used racially biased policing, as shown by data from reports of 200,000+ encounters between BPD officers and civilians from 2007–2010. According to researchers, the data show that police targeted Blacks in 63.3% of encounters—while Blacks make up less than a qu…

03/05/2015

A report, which says Ferguson officials made racist jokes about blacks on their city email accounts, concludes that officers made unjustified traffic stops for years.

02/26/2015

ACLU in the Nation’s Capital—protecting those who live, visit or work in D.C. and all who care about freedom at the Seat of Government.

02/24/2015

"As important as it is to rethink the origins of the violence that poor inner city residents still endure, we must also be careful even when using the term “violence,” particularly when seeking to explain “what seems to be wrong” with America’s most disadvantaged communities. A level of state violence is also employed daily in these communities that rarely gets mentioned and yet it is as brutal, and perhaps even more devastating, than the violence that is so often experienced as a result of the informal economy in now-illegal drugs."

Harsh criminal-justice policies have thrown America's poorest urban communities into chaos.