New York City’s five police unions are joining grieving parents to plead with judges and lawmakers to address the surge in gun violence, blaming the spike on bail reform and criminals not being held accountable. This comes as the City Council’s April 1 deadline to detail reform measures approaches.
Browsing: Pretrial Release
A group of criminologists and law professors challenged a new report by the Pretrial Justice Institute contending that pretrial risk assessment instruments are dangerous. “The benchmark here is not perfection but improving upon unaided human judgment, which is universally acknowledged to introduce racial and other biases,” the group said in an open letter.
Relatives of a murder victim are upset when the alleged killer violated house arrest and fled the state. Chicago sheriff says 20 staff members keep track of 3,300 on electronic monitors.
A woman who helped a friend get out of jail filed class action lawsuit challenging what she says are unenforceable credit agreements that leave bail cosigners on the hook for thousands of dollars
Researchers studied the potential effects of the anti-bail law on the California ballot on San Francisco and Sonoma counties had it been in place from 2017 to 2018.
Reducing the number of people held in pretrial detention and ensuring public safety are “not mutually exclusive,” Jonathan Lippman, former Chief Judge for the New York Court of Appeals, told a Webinar exploring the impact of New York’s historic bail reform law Wednesday.
Borrowing the old adage to never let a good crisis go to waste, live video technology is giving individuals cut off by COVID-19 from pretrial diversion services access to treatment and counselling as an alternative to prison, writes the executive director of the Police, Treatment, and Community Collaborative.
Kentucky was one of the first states to use risk assessments to help decide pretrial release decisions. Studies have found that the state’s judges rely on them less and that some racial disparities remain.
Between April and June, 81 percent of jurisdictions increased releases from jail for persons awaiting trial, according to a nationwide survey of pretrial services agencies. The fact that crime rates remained relatively stable suggests that changes made in the era of the coronavirus should become permanent, survey leaders said.
Funds across the U.S. helping people win release from jail have seen an influx in donations as people seek to support the activists protesting the killing of George Floyd.