So many important takeaways in this new report about jails and mass deportation from @prisonpolicy.org @jkangbrown.bsky.social 1) the scope of immigrants incarcerated *for immigration* is much higher than what is reported by ICE www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

Vera is hiring a graduate student intern for the summer on my team. We’re researching incarceration and inequality, and looking for ~20 hours a week, in Brooklyn. Please share with graduate students you know who might be interested. boards.greenhouse.io/verainstitut...

New analysis from our team at the Vera Institute shows urban jail incarceration rates continue to decline. By spring 2024, urban jail rates were 30 percent under the national rate while rural county jails are 71 percent higher than the national rate (per 100k working age adults).

Criminology – the flagship journal in the discipline – recently published an article with completely erroneous results about the impact of reduced policing on crime. This has major implications for public budgets and public policy.

Texas suburbs are building a lot of new jails--my colleagues and I wrote about one. Just published with the Vera Institute: www.vera.org/in-our-backy...