New Project Aims to Reimagine the U.S. Prison System

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While, the criminal justice system and criminal justice reform have pivoted in terms of policy and practice over the last decade, there is still a long stretch of road ahead when it comes to re-imagining a system that could be drastically different from the one that exists.

The VERA Institute has embarked on a national experiment to re-examine mass incarceration and its failings, with the aim of finding solutions that will produce a tangible plan. This week, we bring you a series of conversations about what it means to reimagine the U.S. prison system.  

Nicholas Turner is president and director of VERA Institute of Justice, and he says a tour of prisons in Germany was the catalyst for his initiative to re-think the prison system in the United States.