Will Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings be the First Lawyer in a Generation to Defend Segregationist Strom Thurmond’s Preventative Detention Law? The short answer appears to be yes, as WHYY.org has reported that Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings supports the change to Delaware’s constitution, presumably meaning she has fully evaluatedRead More →

Study: Eight Year Experiment Ending Cash Bail in Maryland Increased Mass Pretrial Incarceration All While Arrests Went Down and Crime Went Up In 2017, we mounted a campaign against the Maryland “end cash bail” court rule change implemented by the Maryland Court of Appeals because eliminating bail in favor ofRead More →

Brennan Center for Justice Dismantles a Crime Scarecrow, All in an Effort to Advocate for the End of Cash Bail in favor of Risk-Based Preventative Detention Vigorously Opposed by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.   In the latest study[1] from the Brennan Center for Justice to conclude that bail reformRead More →

Turn Out The Lights, The Party’s Over: District Attorney Kim Ogg Routed In Re-Election Bid In Houston Once the darling of billionaire donors who abandoned her after their criminal justice reform litmus test failed reality – after choosing criminal enforcement over criminal justice reform – District Attorney Kim Ogg wasRead More →