This video, produced to commemorate Vera's 45th anniversary, highlights the many ways Vera has worked over the years in partnership with leaders in government and civil society to make the systems people rely on for justice and safety fairer and more effective. Featured projects and programs include the Guardianship Project, Adolescent Portable Therapy, the Prosecution and Racial Justice Program and the Accessing Safety Initiative.
To understand how the United States became one of the most incarcerated nations in the world, it is critical to understand the role that excessive and harsh sentencing has played. In this report, Vera addresses a main driver of mass incarceration: our sentencing system. Dismantling our system of mass incarceration in favor of a narrowly tailored se ...
A laundry list of minor traffic violations can lead to tickets and even jail time. In the worst cases, police stops for trivial infractions turn deadly. But stops for those offenses—tinted windows, a missing inspection sticker, an air freshener dangling from the rearview mirror—don’t make us safer. They do, however, drive racial disparities: study ...
Art and Writing from Inside Prison Walls during COVID-19