Unlike with drugs or other low-level crimes, you never hear the oft-repeated phrase “we can’t incarcerate our way out of the problem” if that problem is violent crime.
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Surviving a shooting or stabbing in a poor New York City neighborhood is often a prelude to a long battle for help.
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There is a group of people who need us to end mass incarceration more than almost any other: crime survivors.
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New York, NY—Common Justice, a Vera Institute of Justice demonstration project, today announced that three Los Angeles-based groups—the Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches (LAM), Life After...
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Eighteen-year-old Jamel was shot in the leg during a robbery attempt while walking down a main street in Harlem after he refused to give up his $800.00 leather coat to three armed gunmen....
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New York, NY—The Vera Institute of Justice today announced a first-in-kind learning collaborative for people and organizations working with young men of color who have been harmed by trauma...
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Danielle Sered, Director of Common Justice, Vera Institute of Justice With Scott Stossel, The Atlantic With thanks to our underwriters: Open Society Foundation (Founding) The Joyce...
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I grew up around the corner from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., which housed the small but remarkable National Museum of Health and Medicine. The musty place hosted a...
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