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This report is one of a series that the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) is releasing with the Safety and Justice Challenge—the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation’s initiative to reduce overincarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails. The aim of this report is not to throw cold water on reform, but rather to add fuel to the fire. Ultimately, the United States cannot unwind mass incarceration if reformers remain fixated on state-level trends and solutions. The numbers show that ending mass incarceration requires reform everywhere: in states and
in counties, in prisons and in jails.
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