Marc Levin and Khalil Cumberbatch write in this article that "Lawmakers in some states are pushing to make it harder for defendants to avoid pretrial detention. There are better ways to protect public safety that don’t conflict with the presumption of innocence."
Marc A. Levin is chief policy counsel for the Council on Criminal Justice and can be reached at mlevin@counciloncj.org and on Twitter at @marcalevin. Khalil A. Cumberbatch is the director of strategic partnerships at the council and can be reached at khalil@counciloncj.org and on Twitter at @KhaCumberbatch. Together, they lead the council's Centering Justice initiative.
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