Bail Reform in Houston: A Half-Decade of Bail Reform Malfeasance Comes to Full Fruition Noted English poet Robert Southey wrote in Curse of Kehama that, “Curses are like young chickens; they always come home to roost.” The curse of Harris County bail reform, first supported by the District Attorney, whoRead More →
Poll: Voters Universally Reject Bail Reform, Call for Higher Bails in Violent Offenders as Primaries and Midterms Loom 64.9% of All Michigan Voters Oppose Legislation Reforming Bail Policies to Lower or Eliminate Bail Bonds – Marketing Resource Group, Judicial Services Spring 2022 Poll There are two billboards at the intersectionRead More →
Third Time is Not the Charm for Failed Bail Reform Movement Excerpt from the The Ripon Forum, by Jeff Clayton May 2022 _____ The third generation of bail reform is over. Like the second generation, it was unsuccessful. This time, the notion that jurisdictions can simply eliminate bail and moveRead More →
New York Legislature Substantially Rolls-Back Bail Reform Law For the second time in three years, New York is rolling back the bail reform law that took effect in January, 2019. Governor Cuomo had to roll it back in part in April, 2019, just months after it went into effect. OneRead More →
Increase In Crime Created Enormous Public Backlash FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Franklinville, NJ (April 11, 2022) – After enduring withering criticism from the public, which demanded action in the wake of a huge increase in crime, the New York legislature voted late Friday (April 8) to substantially roll back the state’sRead More →
Smearing Poop on Woman’s Face, Saying F-you to Judges, and Hate Crimes: New York Bail Reform Fails Again To say that you can’t write this stuff is so cliché we are wondering how it remains in the first sentence of this message. But really, when you are going to useRead More →
New York Pretrial Data Demonstrates That Requiring Bail Does In Fact Better Protect Public Safety In New York City, as a result of a bail reform, there are a large group of cases where judges are unable to impose bail and thus the defendants are now released on their ownRead More →
US Civil Rights Commission Misses the Boat on New Cash Bail Report The U.S. Civil Rights Commission undertook a multi-year study on the problems of “cash bail” in the United States. That report was published today. Unfortunately, as one commissioner pointed out, the report is simply a rehash of oldRead More →
Ohio Chief Justice O’Connor’s “Bail Reform Legislation Would Put Domestic Violence Victims At Risk” It’s no secret that leading the charge on bail reform has been Ohio’s Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, who, now lame-duck, seems intent on leaving her stamp on Ohio’s justice and court system in the final monthsRead More →
Colorado Senators Embark on Journey to Stop Repeat Offenders from Getting Free Passes Last year at this time, we were discussing how many more free passes those charged with low-level felonies and misdemeanors were going to get under Senator Pete Lee’s bail reform legislation—until a crime wave changed our thinkingRead More →
