Michael Jacobson, Vera's director, was quoted in the New York Times in a story about the decline in New York City's jail population, the lowest in 24 years. 

But low-level offenders typically spend a brief time in city jails, said Michael Jacobson, director of the Vera Institute of Justice and a former city correction and probation commissioner. “And even though there are more of them than there used to be,” he added, “the significant decline in felony admissions and specifically felony admissions that get indicted — which stay for months and months awaiting trial as opposed to a week or two for these other arrests — means that the total bed days used by those entering jail has declined hugely.”  

The story reports that the city's jail population peaked in 1992 with a daily average population of 21,449 and an annual population of 111,045. As of June 30, 2009, the average daily population was 13,362, and the annual population 99,939.