Former New York Chief Judge Lippman Strikes Again: Another Re-Cycled Op-Ed from A Decade Ago and Still Telling Only Half of the Story Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, the former head of the State Judiciary in the Empire State, has managed to get Fox News to republish a version of anRead More →
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upholds challenge to New Jersey’s Bail Laws by engaging in a legal tap dance – paving the way for additional challenges and a potential trip to the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s been a generation since Courts began considering the constitutionality of preventativeRead More →
Taking a more measured approach to criminal justice reform, New York and Delaware reject radical changes. Legislative sessions ended in New York and Delaware with legislation failing in both states to upend the procedures of criminal justice with radical reforms aimed at eliminating cash bail in both states. InRead More →
Big Data is Big Business for reformers accumulating a massive inventory of private information on criminal defendants…enter the MacArthur Foundation. Many of you have read about our continuing attempts to expose the fact that much of criminal justice reform is that the process is the product. In other words, thereRead More →
As part of our continued work across the country investigating the Safety and Justice Challenge which is funding jurisdictions with grant money from the MacArthur Foundation, we set out to ask one basic question…is it working? This time we took a look at Spokane, Washington. With community groups like theRead More →
Numbers raise questions about move to reform bail in Maryland. More unintended consequences of allowing the state and those prosecuting you to be the gatekeepers of your freedom. ___ WBALTV11 – May 29 2018 “In March 2017, an average of 655 arrestees were held each day at Central Booking. InRead More →
In the wake of the Ferguson riots, Criminal Justice Reforms in Saint Louis increased pretrial incarceration by an astonishing 21.1% in one year… May 29, 2018 As part of our ongoing investigation into the “success” (or lack thereof) of the MacArthur Foundation’s effort to reshape mass incarceration, we shift ourRead More →
MacArthur Safety and Justice Challenge: Year One Results are in for Charleston, S.C. May 25, 2018 The MacArthur Safety and Justice Challenge is a series of grants to many local jurisdictions to reduce jail populations and basically reduce mass incarceration. It is thought that by implementing a bunch of new “bestRead More →
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit hears oral arguments in key bail case, Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Atlanta, GA – Counsel for the City of Calhoun, Maurice Walker, the American Bail Coalition and Georgia Association of Professional Bondsmen were in Atlanta for oral argument in the landmark bailRead More →
May 24, 2018 It may surprise many to know that the American Bail Coalition and Color of Change have more in common than you may think – we are both champions for communities of color. The recent CNN Opinion “John Legend and Rashad Robinson: End money bail now”, however,Read More →
