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Jan 26, 2012This post originally appeared on the blog of the Cost-Benefit Knowledge Bank for Criminal Justice (CBKB), a Vera project. Today Vera released The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers. This report on state prison costs in 2010 is unique in that it captured taxpayer costs paid by state... More
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Jan 19, 2012Scholars, practitioners, and justice advocates have extensively examined the corrosive impact of mass incarceration on families and communities. The inclusion of family impact statements into the justice equation, as reported by Vera, signals a welcome confluence of empirical research and criminal j... More
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Dec 13, 2011Just in time for the holidays—traditionally a season for connecting with family—Minnesota’s Department of Corrections (DOC) published a research report that supports what many people know intuitively: contact with supportive people can help reduce the chances that someone who has b... More
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Nov 7, 2011Jon Wool, director of our New Orleans Office, is coauthor of a chapter in a new book, Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast After Katrina and Rita (Brookings Institution Press). Jon wrote the chapter “Criminal Justice Reforms” with Luceia LeDoux, vice president of ... More
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Nov 2, 2011By Angela Browne, Vera senior fellow, and Suzanne Agha, senior research associate, Center on Sentencing and Corrections Most corrections systems hold some people in isolation, a practice also known as segregation. Vera's Segregation Reduction Project (SRP) works with states to decrease the segregate... More
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Oct 28, 2011Guest blogger Stefan LoBuglio is chief of Pre-Release and Reentry Services in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. As the division chief of one of the pilot sites─the Montgomery County (Maryland) Pre-Release Center─in the Family Justice Program’s Cl... More
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Oct 26, 2011The Los Angeles Countywide Criminal Justice Coordination Committee (CJCCC) has just released a new report on overcrowding in Los Angeles County jails by Vera’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors that contribute to chronic overcrowd... More
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