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The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers

01/26/2012
A conversation with Sudhir Venkatesh

01/09/2012
Families as partners: Supporting incarcerated youth in Ohio

01/01/2012
Just 'Cause Vol. 19, No. 1

01/01/2012
Faye Taxman: ''How Corrections Systems Can Deter Future Crime''

12/05/2011

Current Thinking

Jan
26

New Vera report: ''The Price of Prisons''

by Christian Henrichson

The publication reports on the total taxpayer cost of state prisons, using a new methodology that creates a more accurate picture.
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Jan
19

Incarceration’s corrosive effects on families

by Marilyn Brown
Jan
18

San Francisco’s family-focused probation: a response from Scotland

by Nancy Loucks

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Whitney Tymas
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Whitney Tymas joined Vera in June 2011 from the National District Attorneys Association, where she ran the Gun and Gang Violence Prosecution Program and the Southwest Border Crime Initiative. She was a public defender with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a Vera spin-off, and at the NY Office of the Appellate Defender. She also served as a prosecutor in Richmond, Virginia.