Name: Vera Institute of Justice
Type: Organization
Bio: Our mission is to drive change. To urgently build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities.
Location: New York, New York
Blog: https://www.vera.org/
Vera Institute of Justice's Projects
Data factories to import arrests data
Shelby County, Tennessee Bail Calculator
Automatic generation of codebooks from dataframes.
Data on confirmed COVID-19 cases, tests, and detained population as reported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from March 24, 2020 through present.
The Vera Institute will host a second research symposium on incarceration in April 2020. The call for papers and data are both available now.
Incarceration Trends Dataset and Documentation
Public release of up-to-date jail population counts.
The Vera Institute of Justice has compiled a spreadsheet containing links to official police datasets for 72 cities - the 50 largest cities in the country and the largest city in each state.
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