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- 02/23/2010
Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) is an innovative approach to community supervision that uses short, swift, and certain jail sentences as sanctions for violations. Vera’s Center on Sentencing and Corrections produced this policy brief to discuss HOPE and emphasize that programs hoping to duplicate its efforts should apply all of its key elements. (Hawaii First Circuit Judge Steven Alm started HOPE in 2004 and has written about this brief for Vera’s website as a guest blogger.)
- 02/16/2010 Vera Institute of Justice
Research Department Guest Speaker Series with Mary Byrne, PHD. Mary Byrne is a Stone Foundation and Elise Fish Professor of Health Care for the Underserved at Columbia University School of Nursing. The interview was conducted at The Vera Institute of Justice on February 9, 2010.
- 02/04/2010 Vera Institute of Justice
Interview with Steve Aos, associate director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy. In this segment, Aos discusses the importance of cost-benefit analysis in helping states balance their budgets. This is part 6 of 6 in the series.
Length: 2:53 minutes
- 02/02/2010 Vera Institute of Justice
Interview with Steve Aos, associate director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy. In this segment, Aos discusses connecting the worlds of research and public policymaking through cost-benefit analysis. This is part 5 of 6 in the series.
Length: 2:45 minutes
- 02/02/2010 Vera Institute of Justice
Interview with Steve Aos, associate director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy. In this segment, Aos offers insights for states developing a cost-benefit capacity to inform public policy. This is part 4 of 6 in the series.
Length: 4:10 minutes
- 02/01/2010 Vera Institute of Justice
Interview with Steve Aos, associate director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy. In this segment, Aos discusses communicating and making cost-benefit findings accessible to Washington State policymakers. This is part 3 of 6 in the series.
Length: 3:24 minutes
- 02/01/2010 Vera Institute of Justice
Interview with Steve Aos, associate director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy. In this segment, Aos discusses the crime model for cost-benefit analysis studies. This is part 2 of 6 in the series.
Length: 3:52 minutes
- 02/01/2010 Vera Institute of Justice
Interview with Steve Aos, associate director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy. In this segment, Aos discusses informing justice policy through cost-benefit analysis. This is part 1 of 6 in the series.
Length: 4:16 minutes
- 01/22/2010 Vera Institute of Justice
Dall Forsythe presentation at the Vera Institute of Justice, recorded November 9, 2009. (Part 2 of 2).
- 01/22/2010 Vera Institute of Justice
Dall Forsythe's presentation at the Vera Institute of Justice, recorded November 9, 2009 (Part 1 of 2).
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- 12/14/2009
More than 1,600 youth enter New York State’s institutional placement facilities (youth prisons) each year, at an estimated annualized cost of $210,000 per child. Yet many of these youth leave more angry, fearful, or violent than when they entered. In September 2008, Governor David A.
topics: - 07/01/2007
Throughout 2007, Vera translated various Legal Orientation Program (LOP) materials into Arabic, French, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese/Mandarin, and Vietnamese. The following materials range from a legal rights presentation script, to a general guide on asylum, to brief fact sheets on topics such as voluntary departure, expedited removal, T-Visas, U-Visas, and more.
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