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 ...

As AI becomes increasingly used in the criminal justice and immigration systems, the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) is committed to promoting the accountable use of AI: systems that produce fair, just, and equitable outcomes that help end the criminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people experiencing poverty. T ...