| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.09.2026 | Finding a job after prison comes with extra challenges. Here are ways to overcome them | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ
NEW YORK (AP) — Don Christian had never held a regular job when he left prison. A conviction at age 19 for selling drugs kept him confined through young adulthood and into his ea... |
| 10.08.2026 | Many immigrants face deportation without a lawyer at their side in court. This program tries to help | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By REBECCA SANTANA
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lawyer Kamalpreet Chohan ran her finger down a list of 57 names of people scheduled to appear during a morning of hearings at the immigration court in C... |
| 02.07.2026 | Trump administration must give many Colorado ICE detainees bail hearings, appeals court rules | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A federal appeals court in Denver has directed the Trump administration to provide bail hearings for many immigrant detainees in a ruling that will have major implications for hundreds of people he... |
| 19.06.2026 | Six years after George Floyd’s murder, a hard-won shift in public safety is under threat (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Diane Goldstein
Six years ago, in the midst of a national reckoning over race, policing and public safety ignited by the murder of George Floyd, few people would have predicted where the country... |
| 01.06.2026 | Voluntary departures spike as immigrants face squalid detention, pressure to leave | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Tim Henderson, Stateline.org
A surge in voluntary departure agreements in immigration courts is raising concerns that Trump administration tactics are unfairly pressuring immigrants into leaving... |
| 26.05.2026 | BUDGET CONFERENCE: STATE PROSECUTORS, PUBLIC DEFENSE LAWYERS TO GET PAY BUMPS AND MORE JOBS, BUT THERE’S A HUGE DISPARITY | The Senate has met the House on its budget offer for new positions for Assistant State Attorneys and Assistant Public Defenders, but the addition of full-time-equivalent (FTE) jobs is disproportionate.
That could create recruitment issues i... |
| 14.05.2026 | BUDGET CONFERENCE: HOUSE (BUT NOT SENATE) OFFERS ASST. PUBLIC DEFENDER, STATE ATTORNEY PAY BUMPS, BUT DISPARITY COULD POSE PROBLEMS | Update May 14, 2026 4:55 p.m.
The House has issued its second offer as part of its criminal justice funding silo, holding firm in its original position on Assistant State Attorney and Assistant Public Defender funding for new positions, wit... |
| 27.02.2026 | Why one nation is treating migration as an investment, not a crime (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Tania Navarro
In a country with a broken pension system that struggles to pay benefits to retirees, an injection of young laborers became crucial to increase tax revenue and keep the program afl... |
| 21.07.2025 | Signature Resolution Welcomes Hon. Ana Maria Luna (Ret.) to Panel of Neutrals | Signature Resolution
Trailblazing judge brings over 40 years of legal and judicial experience to her mediation practice
LOS ANGELES, July 21, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Signature Resolution, a leader in alternative dispute resolution, is pl... |
| 16.04.2025 | DOGE wanted to assign staff to the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice because it got federal funds | “It would clearly undermine a core tenet of civil society: its independence from the state,” said Benjamin Soskis, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute. “Regulatory oversight is one thing, but this would seem to go into much f... |
| 21.02.2025 | The Profit Motive Behind Immigration Detention: A Deep Dive into Local Government Incentives | In the intricate web of U.S. immigration policy, local governments are playing a pivotal role. They are not just enforcers of federal law; they are also profit-seekers. The interplay between local jails and Immigration and Customs Enforceme... |
| 21.02.2025 | National Politics | ‘Perverse’ incentives: How local governments might cash in on Trump’s migrant detention | Cell room doors are seen at the Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia, on August 13, 2018. (SAUL LOEB // AFP via Getty Images)
Trump’s plans will require building a massive nationwide infrastructure, including centers to de... |
| 29.12.2024 | Заключённые в округе Колумбия проходят курсы МТИ по веб-разработке и ремонту телеком-оборудования | В округе Колумбия в США заключённые одной из тюрем проходят курс Массачусетского технологического института, чтобы научиться создавать сайты или ремонтировать телеком-оборудование. Курсы доступны в рамках программы Brave Behind Bars, котора... |
| 15.05.2024 | Denver police restrict low-level traffic stops | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Denver Police Department is limiting its officers from making certain low-level traffic stops to free them up to focus on more serious crimes.
Why it matters: The policy shift is intended to impro... |
| 10.05.2024 | The Painful Reality of Being an Incarcerated Mother | Many of us will celebrate Mother’s Day over the weekend by remembering or being present with women who raised us, or with our families. But for the more than 190,000 women incarcerated in the United States this weekend, there will be no cel... |
| 01.04.2024 | Justice & Joy National Collaborative Announces 2024 In Solidarity We Rise: Joyful Radical Abundance | Hundreds of young adults, activists, and adult allies convene to promote political engagement, movement-building, and intergenerational activism
PORTLAND, Ore., April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Justice + Joy National Collaborative, a ge... |
| 05.09.2023 | Letters to the Editor | Letters to the editor: We must end the war on drugs; airport keeps the spirit of flight alive; content is worth a laugh | Marjorie Bross: Policing: We must end the war on drugs
Recently I told a neighbor that the war on drugs (WoD) should be abolished. She was shocked/horrified. Here are my reasons:
• The WoD was instituted by Nixon explicitly to put black fol... |
| 01.09.2023 | Florida Prison Confiscates Newspapers After Deciding Puzzle Game Might Be A Way To Send ‘Coded Messages’ | Censorship is a priority for prison systems. Despite publicly claiming to be instrumental in the act of “rehabilitation,” correctional facilities generally engage in the sort of non-productive paranoia that ensures the only resources prison... |
| 30.06.2023 | U.S. Department of Education to Launch Application Process to Expand Federal Pell Grant Access for Individuals Who Are Confined or Incarcerated | The U.S. Department of Education (Department) tomorrow will launch a new process through which institutions of higher education can apply to offer postsecondary programs to confined or incarcerated individuals. For the first time in nearly ... |
| 27.06.2023 | Solitary confinement is still widespread in US prisons and jails | When Kwaneta Harris entered solitary confinement in 2015, she knew it would be much harder to keep in touch with her family. She was permitted one five-minute phone call every 90 days.
“I can’t even speak with my oldest daughter because she... |
| 02.05.2023 | 911: Reimagining a System that Defaults to Dispatching Police | Every person deserves equal, effective treatment and safety, especially when in crisis. In such a vulnerable circumstance, people need professionals trained to provide support and care.
But too often, when a person is experiencing a mental ... |
| 09.02.2023 | What a 74-year-old’s death in prison says about California’s elderly parole program | In summary
Between 2014 and 2020, California’s elderly parole program had a 19% release rate. Many of these incarcerated seniors are dying or will die in prison, despite extremely low recidivism rates for their age group.
Guest Commentary w... |
| 05.12.2022 | What the 2022 Midterms Taught Us About Immigration Reform | Immigration has long been used as a wedge issue during election years, and this year was no different. Many candidates peddled falsehoods and racist tropes about an “invasion” to instill fear and win support for their campaigns. America’s V... |
| 30.09.2022 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Dan Williams: Alternative responses to 911 behavioral health calls can save lives | By Dan Williams
Since the start of this year, police in the United States have already killed 770 people. We can expect that next week they will kill about 19 more, with 19 more the week after that and the week after that. Locally, data sec... |
| 26.04.2022 | U.S. Department of Education Announces Expansion of Second Chance Pell Experiment and Actions to Help Incarcerated Individuals Resume Educational Journeys and Reduce Recidivism | Today, during Second Chance Month, the U.S. Department of Education announces actions to help incarcerated individuals access educational programs as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s broader efforts to support reentry, empower form... |
| 21.04.2022 | The Law & Order Reboot Could Not Come at a Worse Time for Criminal Law Reform | You might think you know a lot about the criminal justice system in America. Perhaps you have a vision of what happens at arrest, during police questioning, when bail is set, or during trial. You’ve heard the familiar Miranda warnings on TV... |
| 18.04.2022 | «Тюрьма народов»: сколько, кто и за что сидит в США, России и Европе | При публикации моего предыдущего исследования по сравнению показателей преступности в США и России я запланировал расширить эту тему и изучить данные по тюрьмам и заключённым в этих странах. Приступив к этой задаче, я осознал, что она намно... |
| 08.03.2022 | Teaching Higher Ed in Prison: A Look at Faculty Training and Development | The expansion of national access to Higher Education in Prison (HEP) programming has become a priority as Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students is being reinstated after 26 years. By restoring Pell Grant eligibility for students ... |
| 28.12.2021 | The blind spots of blitzscaling in mental health tech | Pro basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo told GQ magazine last month that he and most of his Milwaukee Bucks teammates were seeing a sports psychologist. Antetokounmpo, a two-time regular season MVP and a finals MVP, revealed that he mee... |
| 23.10.2021 | Priscilla Chan joins executive board of Reform Alliance alongside Jay-Z, Meek Mill, Michael Rubin, Van Jones, and others | Priscilla Chan has joined the executive board of the Reform Alliance, the criminal-justice reform organization told Insider ahead of an announcement.
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| 03.09.2021 | Apple Announces $30 Million Investment Towards Racial Equity Focusing on Hispanic Inclusion | September 3, 2021 2 min read This story originally appeared on Black Enterprise
Coinciding with Hispanic Heritage Month, Apple has announced a $30 million investment in racial equity focusing on the Hispanic community.
The investment will s... |
| 19.05.2021 | Immigrants who have been in the US for decades are being tossed into courtrooms without lawyers because of a glaring loophole in our justice system – it’s time they get a fair hearing | United We Dream, CASA, and other organizations celebrate passage of the American Dream and Promise Act (HR 6) in the House during their watch part and rally on the National Mall in Washington on Thursday, March 18, 2021 Bill Clark/CQ-Roll C... |
| 15.04.2021 | Banks Should Follow And Expand On Biden’s Lead And Divest From Mass Incarceration | Randell Leach, a corporate entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in financial services, serves as Beneficial State Bank’s CEO. |
| 08.03.2021 | 911 And Racism: When The Emergency Response Fuels The Emergency | 911 calls can save lives, but are they always the best response?getty |
| 27.01.2021 | Vera Institute Of Justice Report: Jail Populations In U.S. On The Rise Again, State Prison Population Declines Level Off, As Covid Spreads Throughout The Prison System | NEW YORK (PRWEB) January 27, 2021
The Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) today released People in Jail and Prison in 2020—a report that shows while overall U.S. jail and prison populations declined dramatically in the first half of 2020, loca... |
| 30.12.2020 | Pell Grant Restoration for Students in Prison: A Phenomenal Win | Since 1994, federal Pell grants have been withheld from nearly 1.5 million incarcerated individuals in state and federal prisons–that is, until recently.
On December 20, 2020, Congress passed a sweeping package of bipartisan higher educati... |
| 24.09.2020 | Here's why you should attend the Healthcare in Politics event on October 7 | We have a great array of guests from both sides of the aisle and from around the country
We're only about two weeks away now from the Healthcare in Politics salon, hosted by Vator, HP and UCSF Healthhub, on October 7, where we will have hea... |
| 05.08.2020 | Assets no more: On racial justice risks in municipal bonds | In 1827, Louisiana agreed to back a series of bank bonds whose proceeds were used to purchase slaves. The state pledged to use its “full faith and credit” to repay bondholders, meaning taxpayers were on the hook in the event of default. The... |
| 16.06.2020 | How Google.Org Fellows Are Helping Use The Power Of Data For Criminal Justice Reform | Aria Ashton, a Google.org FellowGoogle |
| 08.06.2020 | Monero-for-Bail Project Sees Increased Demand During Protests | A software program that mines monero to bail people out of jail has seen an uptick in use as protests over the police killing of George Floyd continue across the U.S. The software is called Bail Bloc and runs in the background of your compu... |
| 28.05.2020 | Colorado released 290 inmates under governor’s executive order — less than 2% of prison population | Colorado’s prison system let out 290 inmates over two months under the governor’s executive order relaxing standards for release — less than 2% of the system’s pre-pandemic population and far less than hoped by advocates working to protect ... |
| 03.10.2019 | In DC, Teachers Run the Jail. It’s Turning Inmates Into Students. | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jerard Briscoe is away at school. Or at least, that’s what he tells his kids.
It’s a plausible story. He studies for GED math exams. He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. He even wears a uniform: an ... |
| 14.06.2019 | Unlocking Pell: A Second Chance on Higher Education | The Michelson 20MM Foundation is excited to announce the awarding of $20,000 to the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera).
The Michelson 20MM Foundation envisions a world where prisons become a gateway to higher education, rehabilitation, and f... |
| 05.03.2019 | New York Lawsuit Challenges Replacement of Immigration Court Hearings with Video Technology | In the latest salvo in a long debate over the use of video teleconferencing (VTC) technology in immigration courts, several legal aid organizations filed a class-action lawsuit on Feb. 12 in New York challenging the U.S. Immigration and Cus... |
| 19.02.2019 | Pot is now so decriminalized in Delaware, it’s practically legal | On Monday, Delaware’s new attorney general, Kathy Jennings, laid out her plan for criminal justice reform in the state — and, among other things, announced that her office won’t prosecute for less than 175 grams of marijuana, or just over s... |
| 27.09.2018 | FBI's Latest Crime Stats Continue To Undermine AG Sessions' Criminal Apocalypse Fantasies | Crime rates continue to remain at historic lows. We’re safer than we’ve been since the mid-1960s. We should be celebrating this. Law enforcement should be celebrating this. But there’s no celebration. Certainly not at the federal level. Att... |
| 26.07.2018 | Hear about the challenges of using tech for good at Disrupt SF | Ride-hailing, social interactions from behind tiny screens and fitness tracking are just a few of the things we’ve all become accustomed to thanks to innovative app-makers. It’s not often that we think of tech serving society for good. But ... |
| 19.07.2018 | Digitizing the 21st-Century Prison | This month, inmates in more than 100 American penal institutions will begin receiving federal financial aid for higher education for the first time in more than two decades. |
| 20.03.2018 | First Round Capital teams up with Jay-Z to invest in bail reform startup | West Philly’s First Round Capital is leading a $3 million investment round in bail reform startup Promise, and entertainment mogul Jay-Z is involved.
“Our system is built on reducing recidivism,” Promise cofounder Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins told... |
| 19.03.2018 | Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and First Round Capital invest $3 million in bail reform startup Promise | Nationwide, 62 percent of the jail population accounts for people who can’t afford bail, according to the Vera Institute of Justice. A lot of these incarcerated individuals are behind bars because they allegedly committed crimes at the misd... |
| 21.11.2017 | Google’s nonprofit arm donates another $7.5 million to advance racial justice | Google .org is donating $7.5 million to racial justice organizations Vera Institute for Justice, LatinoJustice, The Leadership Conference and R Street’s Justice for Work Coalition. This brings Google.org’s total amount of funding to racial ... |
| 28.09.2015 | How to Get Involved in Changing the Criminal Justice System | On our new special episode of VICE on HBO, Fixing the System, founder Shane Smith went deep into the American prison system with President Barack Obama and former attorney general Eric Holder. With unprecedented access during a historical p... |
| 29.08.2012 | Mission: Launch job program turns former prisoners into budding entrepreneurs | Teresa Hodge is starting her life over.
In some ways, Hodge, 48, isn’t so unlike other middle-age Americans who have lost their jobs in the last five years. There is, however, one glaring difference: for nearly five years Hodge served time ... |
