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 ...
A Dispatch from the Global Justice Exchange
Delegation members, including Stanley Richards and Dan Martuscello, tour Heidering Prison, Berlin’s newest correctional facility.Since 2013, the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) has organized high-level study delegations composed of diverse justice practitioners and leaders to visit Germany—where the conditions of incarceration are designed to prom ...