Pearl Gabel
The de Blasio administration plan would help defendants facing bails that are too high for them to pay, but perhaps too low for a commercial bail agent to supply.
After a state law cleared a legal obstacle, Brooklyn public defenders are forming a fund to pay low-level bails that keep a surprising number of defendants behind bars before trial—with devastating effects on work, families and their criminal cases.
Atlantic Yards may have generated the most heat, but it’s just one of several ambitious development ideas that took shape in the borough over the past decade.
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