January 20, 2022
Special ReportBail reform, roll backs to that legislation, and the COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented changes in jail incarceration across New York State. Use this tool to understand these shifts at the state and county levels.
February 18, 2021
Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) researchers collected data on the number of people in local jails and state and federal prisons throughout 2020 and into spring 2021. Vera researchers estimated the incarcerated population using a sample of approximately 1,600 jail jurisdictions, 50 states, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals Service (U ...
As we celebrate Juneteenth, a federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of most enslaved people in the United States, it’s important to remember that slavery is still legal in the United States—for people in prison. Nearly two million people have no protection from legal slavery because of a provision in the 13th Amendment, which outlawed ...
