The Buckeye Institute Declares Victory On Bail Reform Amid Clear Defeat The Buckeye Institute has done everything possible in their push to “end cash bail” in Ohio the last few years by advocating for the statewide mandate of pretrial risk assessments and the expansion of risk-based preventative detention. Recent changesRead More →
Unregulated Charitable Bail Funds Upending the Criminal Justice System and Federal Immigration In Wake of Anti-Criminal Justice Momentum While Minneapolis simply considers eliminating the police department altogether, the unregulated Minnesota Freedom Fund is not so quietly making their mark on criminal justice: wealthy donors are giving millions of dollars toRead More →
Ohio Supreme Court Did Not Disallow Risk Assessments In Ohio—They Were Made Mandatory By Legislative Edict A Decade Ago Recently, the Ohio Supreme Court sent over bail reform rules to the legislature that did not include, in the body of the rules, the mandatory use of a pretrial risk assessmentRead More →
California Court Of Appeals Rules The Emergency Statewide Bond Schedule, Like Other Bail Schedules, Do Not Bind California Judges On April 6th, the California Judicial Council issued a statewide emergency order setting a statewide bail schedule in California to $0.00 for most misdemeanors and many felony offenses. The measure wasRead More →
Texas Governor Says No to Get out of Jail Free Policies Due to COVID-19; Texas Supreme Court and a Federal Judge Agree Bail reform activist groups are not being shy about using the recent pandemic to advance their cause. Even in jails where the rate of infection within the entireRead More →
Washington State Governor Unleashes Wave Two Of The Coronavirus: 1,100 Hardened Offenders Walking Out Of Prison We always hesitate to get into prison issues, because our mission is to guarantee the right to bail and also ensure accountability as part of that process. But in the case of Washington state,Read More →
Nevada Supreme Court Latest To Hold No Right To An “Affordable Bail” For those just waking up to the end cash bail mantra, it’s pretty simple: for one to be in a position to pay cash bail and another not is unconstitutional. That’s the supposed theory of evil cash bail,Read More →
Historic Bail Reform Compromise Passes In New York Budget The debate over New York bail reform finally ground to a halt in Albany at 2:19 am eastern time on Friday morning April 3, 2020. The New York Assembly voted for in favor of the Governor’s budget that included a so-calledRead More →
Texas Governor and Attorney General Go On Offense to Stop Calculated Effort to Let All Felons Out Of Jail in Harris County Amid COVID-19 Threat Bail reform activists from coast-to-coast are not trying to help communities fight the virus – they are instead using the existence of the virus toRead More →
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 →
