Civil Rights Corps Damaging Criminal Justice System with Meritless Lawsuits The Civil Rights Corps and their cronies are playing a dangerous political game By Jeff Clayton, excerpt from The California Globe Like many jurisdictions across the nation, Los Angeles County has a big problem with its bail system. Scores of defendantsRead More →
New Jersey overhauled its bail system under Christie. Now some Democrats want to roll it back. excerpt from Politico… Eight years ago, then-Republican Gov. Chris Christie teamed up with Democrats to pass a major overhaul of New Jersey’s criminal justice system, ushering through legislation that made the state among theRead More →
COMMUNITY VOICES: LA DA George Gascón has an offer no criminal can refuse (excerpt from Bakersfield.com 12.27.20) Are you a convicted felon with a history of violent crime? A murderer? Rapist? Child molester? Human trafficker? Drunk driver who kills? Do you take pleasure in using firearms to ratchet up bodyRead More →
Gascón’s reforms at odds with public safety and LA voters (excerpt from the Los Angeles Daily News – 12.9.20) The arrogance of power reached new heights, or depths, in California on Monday. Newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón disregarded the just-declared will of the voters and announcedRead More →
Pretrial Risk Assessment Is Biased And Indefensible By Jeffrey Clayton | August 30, 2020, 8:02 PM EDT (excerpt from Law360) The Conference of Chief Justices, an organization of the highest-ranking judges and justices in the nation, sits at the crux of a major fight that looms regarding the continuing use of pretrial riskRead More →
A new study bolsters claims that a widely used pretrial risk assessment exacerbates racial disparities in Colorado’s jails (excerpt from Colorado Newsline Aug 14 2020) On Oct. 8, 2018, Samuel Bouknight was arrested on Colfax Avenue and booked into the Denver city jail for driving under the influence of alcohol.Read More →
Conference of Chief Justices’ Indefensible Policy on Pretrial Risk Assessment (excerpt from Attorney at Law Magazine – Aug 13 2020) For all the talk in this nation about bail reform the past few years, the move to the use of risk assessment as a one-size-fits-all solution has been touted andRead More →
A BAIL REFORM TOOL INTENDED TO CURB MASS INCARCERATION HAS ONLY REPLICATED BIASES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM (excerpt from The Intercept – July 12 2020) TWO YEARS AGO, Demontez Campbell, who goes by Tez, was arrested for third-degree burglary stemming from what he says was a domestic dispute atRead More →
Exhausted U.S. cities face another challenge: A surge in violence (excerpt from StarTribune – July 9 2020) Police officials in New York City and elsewhere say the recent bloodshed has shown there are consequences to some reforms they see as misguided, particularly on bail reform, enacted before the protests happenedRead More →
