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. These legislative policies have an important role in providing fair, efficient and safe pretrial...
Mecklenburg County released a revised bail policy in March 2019, directing Judicial officials to be more intentional in their decisions related to pretrial release. Mecklenburg County has implemented a structured, data-driven, and collaborative approach to monitor the implementation of the new...
Bail Reform- Implementing Culture and Policy Change.pdf
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...
Debt of Care1.pdf
“Supervised release” allows judges to let those who cannot afford bail be released before trial on a kind of parole — and it may be what finally helps close Rikers Island. This article explores this alternative. #Supervision #Bail #LawEnforcementJails
This research brief will document New York City’s embrace of pretrial release without money — a trend that accelerated in 2018. It will show that judicial willingness to release defendants without money has varied by a defendant’s arraignment charge, with rates of nonmonetary release highest for...
CJA_RWM_March_2019.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
This case study presents the experiences of two counties as they implemented communication strategies focused on engaging pretrial detainees in securing optimal pretrial release and successfully navigating the pretrial release period. Durham County sought to remind anyone released before trial...
Pretrial-Release-Process_final.pdf
Overview of Philadelphia's successful Early Bail Review Program including program description, outcomes, and areas of potential expansion. #Philadelphia #Bail #October2018Chicago #PosterSession #NetworkMeeting
Philadelphia Early Bail Review Poster 10.5.18.pdf
The pretrial population of defendants has significantly increased in the U.S., namely in rural areas. Jails in smaller jurisdictions account for an unusually large contribution to jail population growth. This paper examines possible explanations for this growth and recommends ways to reduce...
2018-04-RR-Rural Pretrial Incarceration-CEJ-Levin Haugen.pdf
The attached is a resolution passed by Philadelphia City Council to decrease their reliance on cash bail. #Bail #moneybail #Philadelphia
Resolution No. 18003200.pdf
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