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 ...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office on a wave of enthusiasm about a new approach to governing, including a stance on policing that broke with that of his predecessor. As a candidate, Mamdani promised to “relieve the excessive burden we’ve placed on police officers” and to allow officers “to focus on serious crimes.” The Mamdani administr ...