Prevention matters, but prevention without accountability will not protect victims or make communities safer. In a recent video posted on Instagram, the Vera Institute of Justice claims that voters understand that “more incarceration and more policing don’t make us safer.” Vera argues that public safety comes instead from investments
Arrest
A $150-million-a-year operation, most of it taxpayer-funded, has built its entire argument around the accused. The person actually harmed by crime never makes the page. Read enough of the Vera Institute of Justice, and you begin to notice who is missing. Not the defendant — the defendant
Bail
When an advocacy network calls oversight “persecution,” look at what it is protecting. Vera.org is sounding the alarm again. This time the complaint is that a proposed federal grantmaking rule would require discretionary grants to demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities and would give federal agencies greater authority
Arrest
Most people never think about bail until someone they know is arrested. When that happens, the family is suddenly expected to understand a system they may have never encountered before. They need to know what bail is, how a bail bond is posted, what information must be provided, who is
Bail
The Profession Is No Longer Accepting Declarations as a Substitute for Results What many state and national bail associations have finally recognized is that the profession can no longer survive on declarations alone. For years, organizations measured success by slogans, membership counts, and conference attendance — or simply by stating they
Bail Agents
The Bail Project cited the Marshall Project's reporting — then erased every fact that explained the judge's decision. The Bail Project published a piece this month celebrating the California Supreme Court's Kowalczyk ruling. Their headline case: an unhoused man jailed on $75,000 bail over
Bail Agents
Vera’s latest attack on federal enforcement erases crime victims, buries a 40 percent crime drop in its own showcase city, and never mentions the nine-figure federal contract riding on the outcome. On July 17, the Vera Institute of Justice published a piece titled “Out-of-Control Federal Law
Bail
The Bail Project’s latest "myth-busting" only works if you never ask who got hurt — and never look at who’s actually in the jail tonight. On June 25, The Bail Project published another article designed to make America doubt its own eyes. The headline: "Most
Bail
On July 10, the Vera Institute of Justice published a piece titled “How to Talk About So-Called Teen Takeovers.” The title is the most honest thing about it. This is not research. It is a messaging guide, written by a senior writer and filed under the organization's
Bail Reform
The Vera Institute's summary of its national survey on earned-time and good-time policies presents itself as research, but the document's own language gives the game away. It is published under Vera's "Ending Mass Incarceration" initiative. Its overview flatly declares the
Bail
Updated and expanded — July 2026 A look at the compensation, funding, and organizational ties behind the movement to abolish professional bail — and what its own IRS filings, corporate marketing, and contract records show. A cottage industry has grown up around the idea that professional bail is cruel, unnecessary, and worth