Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott marks the efforts of community violence intervention (CVI) program Safe Streets to achieve over 365 days without a homicide in the city's Belvedere, Park Heights, and Franklin Square neighborhoods in November 2024. For the past year, Donald Trump has been saying that “homicides are skyrocketing” and the country is “bre ...

Progress is not linear. It zigs and zags, and despite the unpredictability, pursuing equality for all is the duty of each generation. As Juneteenth reminds us, the fight for freedom is a forever endeavor. At Vera, we champion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). We do so because the facts demand it. The work of improving the criminal justice s ...

Jails and prisons harm the health and well-being of people behind bars. Their communities and the broader public are impacted, too.

We know that conditions behind bars—from overcrowding to poor nutrition to medical neglect—lead to adverse health outcomes for incarcerated people. But the impact of incarceration on health extends far beyond the millions of people behind bars—it affects families, corrections staff, entire communities, and public health at large. Mass incarceratio ...