A short history of Vera´s work on the judicial process

Abstract

Since its founding in 1961, the Vera Institute of Justice has designed innovations that allow courts to work more efficiently while paying greater attention to individual victims, witnesses, jurors, and defendants. Sometimes this has meant customizing systems of pretrial release; other projects have diverted certain individuals from the court process entirely; still others have focused directly on court administration; and a final group has tested innovative systems of providing legal advocacy and representation.