For the October issue of FSR, Vera staff, alumni, and associates wrote about collateral penalties for people involved in the justice system.

Vera’s director knows from experience why the Cost-Benefit Knowledge Bank for Criminal Justice can be a useful tool for making public policy.

I testified last week before Canada's Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, which is considering a legislative package requiring mandatory sentences for a host of drug possession and drug sale crimes.

Many Vera researchers will be presenting their work at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, which begins today and continues through Saturday in Philadelphia.

It's been only a week since we learned the tragic and shocking news that Neil Weiner, our research director and senior fellow, passed away. Neil joined Vera in 2006 to lead our research efforts. He commuted from Philadelphia every day and was on his way to work last Thursday when he died.

Vera just received an award for nonprofit management excellence from the New York Times Company. We were one of six finalists at the ceremony in the paper’s terrific new auditorium in midtown.