If You Build It
How the Federal Government Fuels Rural Jail Expansion
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Annual Report 2019
A Vision for Change
People in Jail in 2019
Researchers from the Vera Institute of Justice, with support from Google.org Fellows, collected data on the number of people in local jails at midyear in both 2018 and 2019 to provide timely information on how incarceration is changing in the United States. This report fills a gap until the Bureau of Justice Statistics releases its report on jail p...
Progress Is Upholding Justice
Statement from Vera on New York's Bail Reform Law
Today, Governor Cuomo kicks off the 2020 legislative session in New York with his State of the State. The theme of the address is progress — building upon a remarkable 2019 legislative session where landmark reforms to bail, discovery, and speedy trial were passed as a signature piece of Cuomo’s “justice agenda” — the theme of last year’s State of ...
