Jacob Kang-Brown

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/verainstituteo…

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

NEW REPORT: The # of people in prison & jail doesn’t even begin to capture the reach of the criminal justice system in the US. We provide a more complete picture by including the # of people under probation/parole - systems that often replicate prison conditions in the community.