Systems, Not Girls, Need Fixing: Ending Girls’ Incarceration

Vera's 10-Year Strategy to End Girls' Incarceration

To ensure freedom and justice for all kids, systems must be responsive to how gender and sexism intersect with racism to drive youth incarceration. The Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) believes that we can end the incarceration of youth on the girls’ side of...

Why We Need to End Girls’ Incarceration — Many girls are arrested for misbehaviors like running away and skipping school. This needs to change.

This is still happening to girls today. Although girls are only 25 percent of the overall juvenile justice system, 40 percent of children who are taken to court for status offenses—and 55 percent of children who are taken to court specifically for running away...

Vera by the Numbers: Ending Girls’ Incarceration

Task Force Aims to End Incarceration for Young Girls

Vera's 10-Year Strategy to End Girls' Incarceration - Vera’s 10-Year Strategy to End Girls’ Incarceration

Our 10-Year Strategy to End Girls’ Incarceration Nationwide

About The Initiative to End Girls’ Incarceration

The Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) is leading a national effort to end girls’ incarceration, a goal that is ambitious, but within reach. The number of girls’ confined in any given jurisdiction is typically quite small and the majority of girls who are confin...

Ending Girls and Gender-Expansive Youth Incarceration Within Reach in California — New Report from Vera Institute of Justice and Young Women’s Freedom Center finds by December 2022, most counties in California had five or fewer girls in custody on any given day

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 24, 2024 Contact: Michael Czaczkes, media@vera.org and Victoria Gomez, tori@youngwomenfree.org (CALIFORNIA) Today, the Vera Institute of Justice and Young Women’s Freedom Center released the landmark report ‘Freedom and Justice: Endi...

Ending Girls’ Incarceration Is Goal of New Task Force in New York City

In Midst of Coronavirus, Let’s Redouble Our Efforts to End Incarceration for Girls

Hawai`i Is So Close to Ending the Incarceration of Young Girls — The state had two months with no young people in the girls’ unit of its only long-term placement facility. It’s reason to celebrate, but the work isn’t over.

Image courtesy of the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF). This summer, Hawai`i made headlines for a milestone achievement several years in the making. Finally—and for the first time—there were no girls being held in the state’s only long-term juvenile p...