A series focused on money bail in Law and Politicial Economy. Articles include: Jocelyn Simonson on What Comes After Money Bail? An LPE Perspective on Pretrial Detention Survived & Punished NY on "Bail Reform" & Carceral Control: A Critique of New York's New Bail Laws The directors of bail funds in Chicago, Colorado, Connecticut, & Massachusetts with a two-part piece on Moving from Ending Money Bail to Demanding Pretrial Freedom and Community Bail Funds as a Tool for Prison Abolition Sean Hill on Reading Bail Reform Through a Critical Race Lens Sandra Mayson on After Money Bail: Lifting the Veil on Pretrial Detention #MoneyBail
The attached is a resolution passed by Philadelphia City Council to decrease their reliance on cash bail. #Bail #moneybail #Philadelphia
Resolution No. 18003200.pdf
Money-based bail systems do not do the job they’re supposed to do—protecting the safety of the community while the defendant’s case is pending, and assuring the appearance of the defendant in court
Rational-and-Transparent-Bail-Decision-Making (1).pdf
State legislatures consider and enact laws that address all aspects of pretrial policy, including release eligibility, conditions of release, bail, commercial bail bonding and pretrial diversion...#Legislation #MoneyBail #Bail #Policy
From the study: Researchers draw on ethnographic research to explore how the bail system operates as a predatory social process, arguing that gender interacts with class and race to structure resource extraction in this field. Poor women of color are especially subject to bail predation because they are seen within the larger social organization of care as bearing primary responsibility for defendants. Gendered care work and emotional labor are thus central to the field’s logic of practice and to bail industry profits
Debt of Care1.pdf
The article explores in detail the principles a evidence supporting bail reform and the positive results in various jurisdictions to date, including making reference to the SJC . #moneybail #Bail
#moneybail #rethinkjails #pretrial
new-york-new-york-2019-bail-reform-law-highlights.pdf
But mass incarceration and its impact on minorities is exacerbated every time a defendant who could have been safely released on citation is instead taken to the jail, every time a defendant has to standin court at first appearance without an attorney, every time a defendant’s access to cash determines whether he or she goes home to await trial or spends months in jail. The cash-based bail process plays a large role in mass incarceration, but there is an alternative to that process that will make pretrial release safe, fair and e"ective, and do so in a way that is rational and transparent
Rational and Transparent Bail Decision Making - Pretrial Justice Institute 2012.pdf
As of January 2019, the state’s bail statute has not been revised in almost 50 years, NYC has slashed the use of cash bail by nearly two-thirds
Beyond Legislation.pdf
In many parts of the United States people charged with a crime yet who are presumed innocent are incarcerated when a court sets Cash Bail at an amount that a defendant cannot afford. In some jurisdictionsCash Bail is often required even on nonviolent misdemeanor or criminal traffic charges
Frequency of Signature Bonds In Dane County Criminal Cases 2012-2016.pdf
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