Other cities have employed new methods of pre-trial monitoring to avoid setting financial bail. Given the scale of the city’s criminal justice system, would such an approach deliver both public…
The decision to impose financial bail can have an impact on the city’s jail costs, the ability of the court system to establish truth and an individual’s work, family, housing…
Bail does serve a purpose: preventing defendants from skipping court. But in legislatures and courthouses, there’s political pressure to also use it to punish.
Crucial decisions in the city’s justice system are made under difficult circumstances—at overcrowded arraignment courts where judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers operate with little information and scarce time.
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