Arnold Foundation vehemently affirms support for Pretrial Risk Assessments: Ignores National Civil Rights Groups’ call for elimination and notes it’s pouring in more cash to spread the PSA Tool. Yesterday, in a stunning rebuke to the use of pretrial risk assessments in the criminal justice system, over 100 national groups,Read More →
The NAACP, ACLU and others are calling for the End of Pretrial Risk Assessments in the United States. As bail reform groups such as the Pretrial Justice Institute continue to push the expansion of pretrial risk assessments across the country, national groups are going in the exact opposite direction, rejectingRead More →
When we heard the news recently about Senator Sanders’ federal legislation to end money bail in the United States, several thoughts immediately came into our minds. The first thought we had was – what took you so long? Senator Kamala Harris has already one-upped the “Big Bern” by making endingRead More →
As the rest of the nation waits for actual proof that NJ Bail Reform has worked, proponents continue to cite New Jersey as the model for all things bail – with data that doesn’t prove anything. Former New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino, in a joint op-ed with Elie HonigRead More →
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 →
