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 →
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 →
