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Annual Report 2020: Reckoning with Justice Annual Report 2020: Reckoning with Justice Annual Report 2020: Reckoning with Justice From the President Dear Friends, decimated during the federal government’s response to COVID-19. 2020 will sit heavy in the history books. As the year closes, we The tide is turning toward justice. Massive mourn more than 1.3 million nationwide protests show that Americans have victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, had enough. On Election Day, justice was on a global health crisis that fell the ballot, and Black and brown voters delivered heaviest on the least fortunate. We a decisive message, swaying the election grieve the loss of George Floyd, and sustaining our optimism for reform. The Breonna Taylor, and many others whose brutal American Election Eve Poll, in which Vera was deaths at the hands of police ignited the most a partner, found that more than three-quarters profound societal reckoning with racism that of all voters support removing laws that make we have seen in our lifetimes. We look with it hard to hold police officers accountable cautious optimism at an election that tested our when they kill or abuse Black people. Seventy- democracy and resulted in a President-elect nine percent of Latinx voters and more than 80 who has promised to address structural racism. percent of Black voters say U.S. immigration Opportunity lies in this difficult moment. policy should focus on creating a humane system that is fair to all, rather than focusing on Vera pivoted in unexpected directions to enforcement. address the events of 2020. As the pandemic spread, millions of people were confined We are poised to take advantage of this in prisons, jails, and immigration detention momentum. I am grateful to our dedicated staff facilities where it was impossible to practice members, whose commitment to justice and social distancing. Jails quickly became the top human dignity did not waver under immense COVID-19 hotspots in the country, proving what stress. I want to thank our partners, some Vera has long preached: mass incarceration has of whom risked their own health and safety no place in a healthy society. entering courtrooms, jails, and detention facilities to gain freedom for their clients during Freeing people unjustly confined in jails, the worst public health crisis in a generation. I prisons, and immigration detention facilities want to thank all of our friends and supporters, became not just a matter of conscience, who stand with us at a pivotal moment. Your but a matter of life and death. Vera used generous and committed partnership fuels our its knowledge of the criminal legal system fight for justice. to provide guidance for how system actors should keep people safe, primarily through Uncertain times lie ahead, but I take pride in decarceration and preventing new arrests. Our Vera’s work during a year of great suffering emergency response work provides inspiration and seismic change. We approach the coming for future efforts toward ending mass challenges with optimism and remain persistent incarceration and immigration detention. in our commitment to securing justice for all. We’re seeking bold transformations in a criminal Thank you, legal system with roots established in slavery; a system that continues to disregard the humanity of Black people at every stage. We’re fighting for humane treatment of immigrants, whose rights, already under assault, have been Nicholas Turner, President 4 Vera Institute of Justice From the Board Chair Dear Friends, action that would empower tens of thousands of people to pursue higher education and The challenges of 2020 make clear improve their prospects. just how much Vera’s work matters. Drawing on nearly 60 years of Vera’s Reshaping Prosecution initiative is experience in working to transform helping district attorneys’ offices use their the criminal legal and immigration power to address the harms of systemic systems, Vera is making a racism and end mass incarceration, while the difference during this time of Restoring Promise initiative is expanding its upheaval and crisis. efforts to improve the conditions and culture of jails and prisons, transforming them into safe When COVID-19 swept the country, leaving environments that center human dignity. That people in jails, prisons, and detention program expanded into three new states in centers deeply vulnerable to infection, Vera 2020. provided municipal leaders with specific recommendations to prevent the spread of the The Safety and Fairness for Everyone Initiative virus by slowing arrests, curbing unnecessary (SAFE) also continues to expand its network prosecutions, and reducing jail and prison of publicly funded legal defense programs, populations. reaching 21 jurisdictions across 11 states. This means that more immigrants who can’t afford a When COVID-19 started making people in lawyer get one, which gives them a fair chance immigration detention facilities sick, Vera to fight for their rights in immigration court. joined a coalition of voices calling on ICE to immediately release all from custody. Vera As Vera approaches our 60th anniversary, challenged the government’s implausible we will lean on our history as we continue the claims of low COVID-19 infections in detention fight. Challenges lie ahead, but we remain facilities, with realistic modeling that showed steadfastly focused on our goal: a future in the numbers were likely 15 times higher than which dignity, safety, and justice are available official reports. to all. When the country erupted in righteous anger Thank you, over police brutality, Vera rapidly produced and shared data, analysis, and context that helped lift up community-based solutions. Knowing the true cost of policing as a percentage of total budgets provided protesters, reformers, and municipal leaders with the tools to fight for a Damien Dwin, Board Chair more humane distribution of resources. Beyond addressing these crises, Vera scored a major victory as the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reverse the federal ban on Pell Grants for incarcerated students, an Annual Report 2020: Reckoning with Justice 5 Contents 7 Addressing systemic harms 14 Dismantling systems of oppression 25 Building community power 33 Reframing the narrative 37 The year in photos 39 Financial information 2020 40 An interview with Nancy Kestenbaum and David Klafter 41 An interview with Lisa Opoku 42 Board of Trustees, Honorary Trustees, and Reform Leadership Council 43 Supporters, monthly donors, and pro bono partners 6 Vera Institute of Justice Addressing systemic harms era is working to center human dignity and minimize the harms of criminal legal and immigration system Vinvolvement that are inflicted on millions in the United States—especially on Black people and communities of color. Our work took on a heightened urgency this year with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which people incarcerated in jails, prisons, and detention centers were left largely unprotected. Annual Report 2020: Reckoning with Justice 7 Saving lives in the COVID-19 pandemic 1,376 deaths 37,438 181,478 COVID-19 cases 74 COVID-19 cases deaths due to COVID-19 of among staff working in among people incarcer- people incarcerated in due to COVID-19 of staff prisons. ated in prisons. prisons. working in prisons. Protecting a population at risk In early 2020, as America became the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, Vera mobilized to help protect people in jails, prisons, and detention centers facing extreme risk of infection with no ability to protect themselves. We provided government leaders and advocates with specific recommendations to prevent further transmission of the virus by dramatically slowing arrests, stopping immigration raids, ending unnecessary prosecutions, and reducing jail and prison populations. We developed data tools tracking jail populations to monitor the impact of the criminal legal system’s response and provide accountability. And we shared our extensive guidance and resources with thousands of local, state, and federal officials through blog posts, special reports, webinars, and videos. Our response work has played a critical role in freeing people: › In New Orleans and Los Angeles, our staff coordinated with advocates and system stakeholders to get people out of jail, contributing to a decline of almost 20 percent in the jail population in both places during the height of the outbreak. › In Houston, we drafted—and judges approved—a new standing bail order mandating release for many offenses. In the weeks immediately following its implementation, the jail population declined by 17 percent. › In Kentucky, which entered the COVID-19 pandemic with the second highest rate of jail admissions in the nation, Vera called for expanding the Kentucky Supreme 8 Vera Institute of Justice Court’s mandatory release bail policy in the wake of COVID-19. This policy change reduced the statewide jail population by more than 25 percent during the summer of 2020. › In New York, an early epicenter of the pandemic, Vera released guidance briefs on the urgent need to release people from the state’s prisons and Rikers Island jail. We developed an online data tool—Jail Viz 2.0—that allows users to see in real time who is incarcerated in New York City’s jails and why. Advocates, city officials, and even the City’s Board of Correction have told us that they used the tool to track progress on reducing the number of people at Rikers Island. Vera is currently developing a similar tool to track the daily state prison population. Demanding release of immigrants in detention Our COVID-19 work focused as well on America’s massive immigrant Fact: According to the detention system, which in 2019 held as many as half a million people Washington ost, migrant in prison-like conditions that create a high risk for rapid spread of this arrests at the border rose to a dangerous virus. 13-month As the pandemic spread in the early months of 2020, Vera joined with high local leaders in calling on immigration officials to immediately release in September 2020.
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