Sam Weiss is our founder and Executive Director. Before starting Rights Behind Bars, Sam litigated prison conditions cases and other civil rights cases across the country at the ACLU’s National Prison Project, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He has published writing on the criminal justice system and other issues of civil and constitutional rights in academic and popular settings. He is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School where he teaches the doctrinal course Prison Law.