The County of San Diego Behavioral Health Services (BHS) has a program called Project In-Reach that cuts recidivism, or return-to-jail rates by 50%. The county spends a little to help someone out of jail, then saves almost 26 times the cost of that program – for hundreds of people who would have likely re-offended and […]
Register for TransparencyCamp 2014! Sunlight Foundation‘s fifth annual “unconference” (lovingly nicknamed #TCamp14) will be held May 30-31, 2014 at George Mason University’s Arlington campus just outside Washington, D.C. TCamp brings together technologists, civic hackers, policy makers, advocates and citizens to share knowledge on how to make government, at every level, work for the people. If […]
Funny seeing people terrified. See all the pictures here. For the past four years, the brilliantly twisted geniuses at a Canada-based attraction called Nightmares Fear Factory have been running an automatic camera that snaps pictures of spooked people at the perfect moment, a split second after a big scare in the pitch dark. Since it’s a flash, it […]
I was touched by this photo which is of a man who lost his brother to a killer in Flint, Michigan. What struck me the most was the compassion the police and others holding the brother back from the crime scene. Flint has an extreme problem with crime and this was a moment we all […]
I love this story. A young black woman protesting alongside hundreds of others at a KKK rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan instinctively physically threw herself upon an alleged KKK member in the crowd – while he was being attacked by the mob. Someone pointed him out to the crowd because he was wearing a t-shirt […]
