This new ‘decarceration index’ ranks companies that avoid prison contracts and hire formerly incarcerated workers

FreeCap Financial worked with investment index company BITA to create FreeIn, which ranks companies committed to fair hiring practices, among other efforts.

For the past decade, large institutions and even cities have been eliminating their investments in private prisons. As impactful as the movement has been, people like Tanay Tatum-Edwards view divesting from mass incarceration as about more than just avoiding private prison operators.