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 ...

In 2025, New Orleans endured a year of crisis, change, and turmoil. An unprecedented snowstorm, a terrorist attack, a jail break, the Super Bowl, and federal incursions by the National Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement all collided in a single year, testing the city’s resilience and straining its capacity to respond. These overlapping c ...