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The Crime Report talks funding, inertia and over-incarceration with the man who heads Vera Institute of Justice’s NOLA office.

It’s rare for an entire city to get a do-over, but after Hurricane Katrina roared through New Orleans and the levees gave way, the Crescent City became ground zero for policy makers and visionaries wanting to transform the city’s agencies and social structures.

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A new Web site was, ExpertBail.com, was launched by AIA,  so users can search  for a bail agent by city, state or zip code everywhere commercial surety bail can be written and obtain valuable information on how the bail process works. Approximately two million defendants are released through commercial bail agents each year.

Access the Web site here.

Use the Crime Report for more information on bail.

For decades, Indiana’s answer to crime has been to adopt tough new laws and strict sentencing policies to keep more offenders behind bars. Since 2000, the legislature has passed 117 criminal laws or penalty enhancements. The result, says the Indianapolis Star: Indiana’s prison population has jumped by more than 40 percent, and the cost of running the prisons has soared by 76 percent, to $679 million a year. By 2017, the cost will balloon to more than $1 billion. (more…)

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A Georgia federal judge has ruled against Troy Davis’ claims that he is innocent of the 1989 murder for which he’s been sentenced to death, reports the Fulton County Daily Report. The decision came nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court granted the request Davis’ supports had been making for years: ordering a judge to review what they say is evidence showing that Davis did not murder Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. (more…)