Private Bail Agents Hold the Line of Criminal Accountability as Reformers Use Covid-19 to Cause Greater Social Panic and Unrest Covid-19 Get Out of Jail Free Card – A New Low for Activists In the latest move to remove accountability from the criminal justice system, reformers and activists have takenRead More →
Colorado Legislation that Will Increase Mass Incarceration Advances; Governor’s Public Safety Director Leading the Effort The Governor’s Public Safety Director Stan Hilkey is pushing policies that will increase mass incarceration in Colorado with Senate Bill 161 (SB-161), a bill modeled after the so-called success in Mesa County. The bill wasRead More →
West Virginia Bail Reform Moves Forward While Other States Go the Other Direction New York bail reform is the laughing-stock of the nation. That much you probably already knew. When you can rob six banks in sixteen days and get a free release, that just doesn’t make sense. When aRead More →
Bail Reform Increases Crime According To Utah Professors As Utah Legislature Looks To Implement New York Style Bail Reform As the Utah legislature considers HB 206 to reform Utah’s bail system, which is another bail reform bill in what seems a like an endless yearly tinkering effort in Utah, the public andRead More →
Where Is Colorado Public Safety Director Stan Hilkey On Pretrial Risk Assessments Now? Known supporter of the Pretrial Justice Institute (“PJI”) and their policies of pretrial risk assessments and supervision of pretrial defendants is none other than Colorado Department of Public Safety Director Stan Hilkey. Hilkey has written op-eds onRead More →
Indiana’s Judicial CASH BAIL SCAM: Selling Out Public Safety, Criminal Defendants, Public School Kids And First Responders In Order To Enrich The Treasury Of Judges On any given day in Indiana, judges are using the money bail system against criminal defendants and the public not for the purpose for whichRead More →
Historical Shift As Pretrial Risk Assessments Come Under Fire By The Largest And Most Vocal Former Proponents Two of the largest public backers and state influencers of pretrial risk assessments have thrown in the towel and done a complete 180 on the use of pretrial risk assessments – now joiningRead More →
New York Bail Reform: Bipartisan Chorus Of Local And State Officials Call For Repeal Of Bail Reform As Local Judge Declares The Law Unconstitutional It’s been a busy week in the Empire State of New York as the repeal of “catch and release” bail reform continues to draw bipartisan support…Read More →
North Carolina: Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather, III Calls For The Federal Bail System, Which Will Increase Mass Incarceration, Not Reduce Crime, And Bankrupt The State Of North Carolina Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather believes in preventative detention policies, those that allow denying bail altogether, and wants themRead More →
West Virginia: Americans For Prosperity Encourages Bail Reform Based On A Massive $300 Million New Jersey Tax-and-Spend Bail Reform Plan That Somehow ‘Lowered’ The Tax Burden In a letter being used by Americans For Prosperity (“AFP”) to argue for expanded bail reforms in West Virginia, AFP encouraged the West VirginiaRead More →
