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On this page you'll find informative, inspiring, thought-provoking and motivating videos to fuel your fire as - together - we build a better world!

We recently had the honor to speak with Sue Kastensen, the creator of the re-entry resource Fair Shake which provides vast amounts of information and tips to help prisoners return to society successfully.

Julius Campbell, who spent over a quarter of a century in the Georgia prison system before his recent release, shares invaluable insights into the causes of recidivism and what we the people - as individuals and as communities - can do about it.

1700+ people are released from prison each day.

Ubuntu. It speaks to the fact that we are all connected and that one can only grow and progress through the growth and progression of others. The Rev. Desmond Tutu reminds us that “We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world."

The report in Mr. Loomis’s case was produced by a product called Compas, sold by Northpointe Inc. It included a series of bar charts that assessed the risk that Mr. Loomis would commit more crimes.
…a report from ProPublica about Compas that concluded that black defendants in Broward County, Fla., “were far more likely than white defendants to be incorrectly judged to be at a higher rate of recidivism.”
Compas and other products with similar algorithms play a role in many states’ criminal justice systems. “These proprietary techniques are used to set bail, determine sentences, and even contribute to determinations about guilt or innocence,” a report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center found. “Yet the inner workings of these tools are largely hidden from public view.”

With the company's vice president, Kenyatta Brame, and Jahaun McKinley, formerly incarcerated and lean manager at Cascade who has been with the company for six years.