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1. A short-term approach to public safety that disproportionately criminalizes people experiencing poverty and communities of color.
3. Beginning this year, 760,000+ people in prison can now apply for Pell Grants to help pay for this transformative opportunity.
5. In 1971, Richard Nixon declared a “war on (Blank)”. This initiative is often cited as contributing to the rollout of “tough on crime” rhetoric and policies, including the 1994 Crime Bill, and advancing deeply racist legislation that perpetuates mass incarceration.
7. Unlike the U.S. criminal court, people in immigration court are not guaranteed access to one of these if they cannot afford one. The Fairness to Freedom Act would change that.
10. Vera has committed to getting incarceration to zero and developing community-based solutions for this group of people.
12. With help from generous donors like you, Vera can restore this to our nation’s criminal legal system.
13. Vera is fighting to ensure that New York City delivers on its commitment to close this notoriously inhumane jail complex.
14. Vera is disrupting the criminalization of poverty by working with states to eliminate this monetary condition for pretrial release.

2. The U.S. criminal legal system’s default response to crime.
4. What you can do to help support and expand this work in 2024.
6. Vera has the solutions needed to end mass incarceration, but we still need one thing.
8. Long-term detention facilities that currently house about 1.2 million people in the U.S.
9. This September, the Pretrial Fairness Act went into effect, making this state the first to eliminate money bail as a condition of pretrial release.
11. Shorthand for an organization that comprises researchers, advocates, and public policy experts working to end mass incarceration.
12. Approximately two-thirds of the people held in these temporary detention facilities have not been convicted of a crime.