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Testing Community Supervision for the INS — An Evaluation of the Appearance Assistance Program
In 1996, the Immigration and Naturalization Service asked Vera to establish a supervised release project for people in removal proceedings in New York City. The INS goal was the explore supervision and evaluate its effect on people's rates of appearance in cou...
Community Supervision Proves Detention is Unnecessary to Ensure Appearance at Immigration Hearings
The United States detained 486,190 immigrants in prison-like conditions in 2019, inflicting unnecessary physical and emotional harm on vulnerable people at a $3.1 billion cost to American taxpayers. The government justifies this mass detention by assuming that...
Bail Bond Supervision in Three Counties — Report on Intensive Pretrial Supervision in Nassau, Bronx, and Essex Counties
Intensive supervision; Model programs; Community supervision; Jail overcrowding
Beyond Blame and Panic — Institutional Strategies for Preventing and Controlling Adolescent Violence
Community supervision; Chronic juvenile offenders; Resource coordination
The Appearance Assistance Program — Attaining Compliance with Immigration Laws Through Community Supervision
This booklet describes the Appearance Assistance Program, highlighting innovative strategies designed to increase compliance.
Probation Reform — Is Zero Tolerance a Viable Option?
Can community supervision compete with incarceration as a means of crime control? Mark Kleiman, professor of policy studies at the UCLA School of Public Affairs and the author of "When Brute Force Fails: Strategic Thinking for Crime Control," believes it can. ...
A Path to Recovery — Treating Opioid Use in West Virginia's Criminal Justice System
In the United States, a disproportionate number of people who come into contact with the criminal justice system suffer from opioid use disorder. Key to confronting the opioid epidemic and related deaths is expanding access to a range of treatment options, inc...
Women's Pathways Into and Out of Jail in Buncombe County — Findings from Research with Women Detained in Buncombe County and Recommendations for Reducing the Use of Jail
This report presents an analysis of women’s experiences with the local criminal legal system in Buncombe County, North Carolina: their pathways into and out of the jail, their living conditions and concerns during detention, and their perspectives on how servi...
Assessing the Effectiveness of Intermediate Sanctions in Multnomah County, Oregon
In the 1990s the Department of Community Justice (DCJ) in Multnomah County, Oregon, initiated a series of evidence-based reforms intended to shift resources and change its supervision approach. This study by the Vera Institute of Justice is one of a number of ...
A role for community corrections in a sentencing alternative for parents
Part two of a three-part series. Community corrections officers (CCOs) working with offenders in the Family Offender Sentencing Alternative (FOSA) and Community Parenting Alternative (CPA) in Washington State are forging ahead with a new approach to supervisi...
Toward a Fairer Parole Process — Examining Parole Denials in New York State
Every year in New York State, roughly 10,000 people appear before the Board of Parole to make their cases for release. In 2019, only 40 percent of people were granted parole, and in 2020—a year that demanded decarceration in the name of public health and safet...
Vera’s Policing Program Releases Second Volume of “Emerging Issues in American Policing” Quarterly Digest
Recent research unveils how factors like police stress, supervision strategies, and calls for service affect officer and community wellbeing. Emerging Issues in American Policing is a quarterly digest tailored to practitioners and community members interested ...