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Opinion - An obscure court case could reverse bail reform. Kerry Kennedy, opinion contributor. November 27, 2024 at 1:00 PM. Last week would have been my father Robert F. Kennedy’s 99th birthday ...
The VISTA bail bond program in Baltimore in the 1960s, which dealt with 16-20 year old defendants, [70] suggested that while youth are more susceptible to negative consequences of pretrial release conditions, they are also more receptive to positive bail reform programs. There exist socioeconomic arguments against bail reform as well.
Maicol and Baxter emphasized that bail reform legislation is not a political issue, it’s a public safety one. In a statement released by CSC, the group outlined its core initiatives: 1. Risk of ...
The number of people in Illinois jails has fallen by 1,888 since the bail reform went into effect, with a 14% decline in urban counties and a 25% decline in rural ones. Some areas have seen huge ...
Dec. 27—While the United States Supreme Court ultimately declined to review a 2017 lawsuit claiming the use of Cullman County's bail procedures unconstitutionally favor wealthier defendants ...
The Manhattan Bail Project was an initiative of the Vera Institute of Justice. [3] With the success of the Manhattan Bail Project, several other jurisdictions across the country began to implement pretrial services programs. These early pretrial services programs were primarily for low-risk indigent defendants, unable to pay a financial bond. [4]
The U.S. state of New York enacted bail reform, in an act that stood from January to June 2020. As part of the New York State Fiscal Year (SFY) Budget for 2019–2020, passed on April 1, 2019, [1] [2] cash bail was eliminated for most misdemeanor and non-violent felony charges, [3] including stalking, assault without serious injury, burglary, many drug offenses, and some categories of arson ...
Bail reform has received a lot of attention this year packed with emotional testimony both for and against House Bill 313 which sought "to make operating a charitable bail organization unlawful ...