In response to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's new appointments to the Civilian Complaint Review Board and planned expansion of the ...

More unaccompanied children have their cases decided in immigration court without ever having an attorney than before Trump’s ...

For people leaving prison, finding a job is one of the strongest predictors of a successful return to community life.

It wasn’t easy finding work after more than 17 years in prison, but Vanessa Santiago persisted. She was eventually hired at a Lowe’s Home Improvement store and, after a few months on the job, was ...

We toured German prisons in Hameln and Berlin, Germany and what we saw was incredible. This is what a prison system looks like when it is centered around treating people humanely. It showed us that we ...

New data from Vera’s ICE Detention Trends dashboard reveals record detention levels and an expanding network of facilities nationwide. New United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data ...

There is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to diversion. Most diversion programs aim to minimize contact with the criminal legal system and shift those involved away from arrest, prosecution, and ...

The Republican crime bill, rumored to arrive early in 2026, has its origins in President Donald Trump’s March 2025 address to Congress. In that speech, Trump said he was “asking for a new crime bill, ...

The Constitution grants certain due process rights to citizens and noncitizens on United States soil. Though the country’s immigration system has never ensured those rights were fully and adequately ...

California forced incarcerated people to sleep on bunks in communal areas, like the ones pictured here in California State Prison-Lancaster. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the dangerous conditions ...

NEW YORK — Today, the Vera Institute of Justice issued their annual People in Jails and Prison report, which shows that pandemic-era decarceration has stalled. Roughly 1.3 million people are being ...