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Testing Community Supervision for the INS — An Evaluation of the Appearance Assistance Program
In 1996, the Immigration and Naturalization Service asked Vera to establish a supervised release project for people in removal proceedings in New York City. The INS goal was the explore supervision and evaluate its effect on people's rates of appearance in cou...
Community Supervision Proves Detention is Unnecessary to Ensure Appearance at Immigration Hearings
The United States detained 486,190 immigrants in prison-like conditions in 2019, inflicting unnecessary physical and emotional harm on vulnerable people at a $3.1 billion cost to American taxpayers. The government justifies this mass detention by assuming that...
Bail Bond Supervision in Three Counties — Report on Intensive Pretrial Supervision in Nassau, Bronx, and Essex Counties
Intensive supervision; Model programs; Community supervision; Jail overcrowding
Beyond Blame and Panic — Institutional Strategies for Preventing and Controlling Adolescent Violence
Community supervision; Chronic juvenile offenders; Resource coordination
The Appearance Assistance Program — Attaining Compliance with Immigration Laws Through Community Supervision
This booklet describes the Appearance Assistance Program, highlighting innovative strategies designed to increase compliance.
Women's Pathways Into and Out of Jail in Buncombe County — Findings from Research with Women Detained in Buncombe County and Recommendations for Reducing the Use of Jail
This report presents an analysis of women’s experiences with the local criminal legal system in Buncombe County, North Carolina: their pathways into and out of the jail, their living conditions and concerns during detention, and their perspectives on how servi...
Toward a Fairer Parole Process — Examining Parole Denials in New York State
Every year in New York State, roughly 10,000 people appear before the Board of Parole to make their cases for release. In 2019, only 40 percent of people were granted parole, and in 2020—a year that demanded decarceration in the name of public health and safet...
Evidence Shows That Most Immigrants Appear for Immigration Court Hearings
The United States confines hundreds of thousands of immigrants in prison-like detention facilities at a cost to taxpayers of billions of dollars each year. Expanding use of civil detention is often justified by the government as being necessary to ensure that ...
A Path to Recovery — Treating Opioid Use in West Virginia's Criminal Justice System
In the United States, a disproportionate number of people who come into contact with the criminal justice system suffer from opioid use disorder. Key to confronting the opioid epidemic and related deaths is expanding access to a range of treatment options, inc...
Probation Reform — Is Zero Tolerance a Viable Option?
Can community supervision compete with incarceration as a means of crime control? Mark Kleiman, professor of policy studies at the UCLA School of Public Affairs and the author of "When Brute Force Fails: Strategic Thinking for Crime Control," believes it can. ...
What Happens After You Get Arrested — From arrest to arraignment, here’s how the start of a criminal case plays out in New York City and many other jurisdictions nationwide.
Being arrested disrupts someone’s life and the lives of their loved ones. It also threatens their safety. Even a single day in detention can have cascading consequences and make someone more likely to be arrested again in the future. An arrest also sets the...
An Ankle Monitor Gives a False Taste of Freedom — “I spent 30 months on an ankle monitor. It felt crueler than jail.”
When you are living with an electronic monitor on, you are free—but you aren’t free enough. I lived with an electronic monitor uncomfortably attached to my ankle for almost 30 months across two different states. I wasn’t in jail, but I wasn’t free either. In ...