In Our Backyards
Ending Mass Incarceration Where It Begins
Ending Mass Incarceration Where It Begins
See our updated report, "People in Jail and Prison in 2020," here. Researchers from the Vera Institute of Justice, with support from Google.org Fellows, collected data on the number of people in local jails at midyear in both 2018 and 2019 to provide timely information on how incarceration is changing in the United States. This report fills a gap 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 ...