January 20, 2022
Special ReportBail reform, roll backs to that legislation, and the COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented changes in jail incarceration across New York State. Use this tool to understand these shifts at the state and county levels.
February 18, 2021
Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) researchers collected data on the number of people in local jails and state and federal prisons throughout 2020 and into spring 2021. Vera researchers estimated the incarcerated population using a sample of approximately 1,600 jail jurisdictions, 50 states, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals Service (U ...
As temperatures rise, thousands of incarcerated people face dangerous—even deadly—heat in prisons that still lack air-conditioning.
A group of organizations has sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), arguing that confining people in sweltering conditions violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. This trial began in federal court in early April and has given some hope to incarcerated people and their advocates, who are asking the judge to fo ...