Vera Institute of Justice

The U.S. criminal legal system isn’t broken, it’s functioning exactly how it was designed—not to help or heal, but to punish and oppress. It can’t be fixed. It needs to be transformed.

Thank you for your interest in helping Vera to end mass incarceration. Together, we can make human dignity the foundational, guiding principle of our nation’s approach to justice.

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