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Keeping Incarcerated People From Their Families Is Cruel
Rashaad Porter couldn’t believe what he was seeing. There, in a prison in…
Aug 04, 2021
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The Biden Administration Is Trying to Speed Up Deportations
President Biden has been in office for more than half a year, giving us…
Aug 03, 2021
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Three Advocates on the Lasting Legacy and Hopeful Future of the Criminal Justice Reform Movement
Nonprofits like Vera are accountable to many people. There are the thousands…
Jul 08, 2021
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On Independence Day, Whose “Freedom” Do We Celebrate?
In 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered an address in which he asked:
What, to…
Jul 02, 2021
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Fifty Years Ago Today, President Nixon Declared the War on Drugs
Today, police make more than 1.5 million drug arrests each year, and about…
Jun 17, 2021
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The Chains of Slavery Still Exist in Mass Incarceration
The 13th Amendment may have outlawed the enslavement of Black people, but the…
Jun 17, 2021
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"There Is No Other Like You": Remembering Herb Sturz
Just 10 short days after we said goodbye to Michael E. Smith, Vera’s president…
Jun 11, 2021
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In Memoriam: Herb Sturz, A Modest Giant Among Advocates
Herb Sturz, a social justice legend who devoted his life to public service and…
Jun 11, 2021
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Four Ways the Pandemic Made Us Rethink Our Criminal Legal System
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the public health risks that overcrowded jails…
Jun 09, 2021
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The Vera Institute of Justice celebrates the life and mourns the death of Michael E. Smith.
Mr. Smith spent two decades of his professional life at Vera, serving as…
Jun 03, 2021