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 ...
“I hope [my attorneys] will be able to help other people—the same way they helped me.”
Shackled hand and foot on a deportation flight to Mexico, Naomi* sat weeping and praying. Her parents brought her to the United States when she was nine years old. Though she had struggled to navigate the complex path to legal residency, she had built a life in the Chicago area, with children and grandchildren she would be leaving behind. When she ...
Although the precise definitions and usage of the terms vary by state, in general, “good-time” and “earned-time” credit structures allow incarcerated people to earn time off their sentences through good behavior and participation in rehabilitative programming. Laws that restrict sentence credits were popularized in the 1980s and 1990s to ensure tha ...