What's Next For American Prisons And Criminal Justice Reform?
Five activists, including singer John Legend, debate what's next for criminal justice reform and the role that tech and data can play.
Five activists, including singer John Legend, debate what's next for criminal justice reform and the role that tech and data can play.
Police shootings of un-armed African Americans have inspired outrage, but that's just one of many ways America's criminal justice system is tilted against people of color. Today, a growing movement is challenging structural racism that has millions of Americans in a cycle of incarceration. We gathered leaders from different parts of this fight—singer John Legend, who founded the "Free America" campaign; activist DeRay Mckesson; former prosecutor Adam Foss; Obama administration data expert Clarence Wardell III; and Malika Saada Saar, Google's senior counsel on civil and human rights—for a conversation with Fast Company's J.J. McCorvey at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in November.