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At the Vera Institute of Justice, we drive policy change to advance safety and justice and to measurably improve communities and people’s lives. We work to transform the United States’ excessively punitive criminal legal system and to challenge the country’s long-standing complacency with the harms of mass incarceration. This involves piloting solutions in difficult settings—including jails and prisons—and developing evidence to show what does and does not work. Evidence has always been Vera’s cornerstone for our 62 years of existence, and we have a reasoned perspective on it. Two weeks ago, Jennifer Doleac, an economist and Arnold Ventures’s new executive vice president in charge of its criminal justice portfolio, took to X (formerly Twitter) to openly disparage recent Vera research on college-in-prison programs in New York State. The Vera study she attacked found that incarcerated students who enroll in college are 66 percent less likely to be reconvicted of a new offense following r

Impact Over Orthodoxy | Vera Institute Vera Institute of Justice | Impact Over Orthodoxy HOME // From the President Series: From the President HOME // NEWS AND STORIES Impact Over Orthodoxy Research, policy solutions, and what counts as sufficient evidence in transforming the criminal legal system. Nicholas Turner Former President & Director Dec 06, 2023 SHARE At the Vera Institute of Justice, we drive policy change to advance safety and justice and to measurably improve communities and people’s lives. We work to transform the United States’ excessively punitive criminal legal system and to ch

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