Voters should reject this plan on March 29.

On March 29, Louisiana voters will weigh in on Amendment 3, which would change the state constitution to remove the protections that keep most young people out of the adult criminal legal system. Louisiana already allows children to be sent to adult facilities on serious charges like murder or rape, but Amendment 3 would give the legislature power ...

State and local leaders are working to protect their communities from the immigration system’s degradation of human rights. Vera is offering grants to support new efforts.

Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump and his administration have made no secret of their plans to target immigrants, escalate a mass deportation agenda, expand United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations into schools, contract with for-profit prison companies to reopen shuttered detention centers, and detain people ...

85 people have died in LA County jails since the start of 2023.

How are people dying? Los Angeles County has not yet publicly issued causes of death for everyone who has died in county jails in recent months. And even once even once autopsy reports are finalized, they don’t tell the whole story. When the coroner rules that a death is the result of “natural causes,” jail conditions can still be to blame. Researc ...