Bail
California DA Reports 42% of People Released on $0 Bond Rearrested
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Intended to empty jails of low-level offenders, the DA claims that releases are made without consideration for potential danger and criminality.
Bail
Southern States Join National Effort to Bail Out Low-Income Offenders
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Continuing its work to bail low-income and impoverished offenders out of jail, the Bail Project turns to the Deep South, where incarceration rates and racial disparities are the highest in the country.
Bail
Texas House Approves Prohibition of Bond Release for Violent Offenders
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In the wake of perceived leniency on bond releases, the Texas House has pushed a bill that would add greater restrictions to the conditions of release for certain offenders.
Bail
Report Finds Pattern of Bias in Pittsburgh Bail Decisions
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According to an Abolitionist Law Center Court Watch program report released today, Black people are more likely to be arrested by Pittsburgh area police and more likely to face cash bail imposed by local judges.
Reforming the System
Could Eliminating Cash Bail Save the U.S. Billions?
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A new paper suggests that reducing pre-trial detention by eliminating cash bail would generate significant economic returns for accused individuals, their families and communities, and the country as a whole.
Bail
Bail Bond Insurers Spent $17m on Anti-Reform Lobbying
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Spending by insurance companies to block bail bail reform has jumped 10-fold since 2010. The firms seek to protect a business that earns over $15 billion a year.
Bail
California High Court Rules Bail Can’t Be Imposed Before Considering Ability to Pay
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The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that judges must consider a person’s ability to pay when setting bail, and can only keep someone in jail pretrial if there are no other less restrictive ways of protecting public safety.
Bail
California Moves Closer to Setting Bail at $0
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The bills are modeled after a similar move to set bail at $0 last April, in order to keep jail populations low and mitigate COVID-19 outbreaks, that was rescinded.
Policy & Politics
Illinois Scraps Money Bail
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The bill signed Monday by Gov. J.B. Pritzker was sponsored by a caucus of Black Illinois lawmakers who were motivated by the death of George Floyd and others along with the summer protests and marches over policing and racial and social justice.
Reforming the System
Illinois Set to End Money Bail, Draft New Pretrial Guidelines
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Illinois will be the first state to completely scrap a system that has not only disproportionately affected low-income populations but also communities of color, under a new bill expected to receive Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature in the coming weeks. Legislators are also weighing a reform in pretrial detention guidelines.