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Op-ed: Bail Reform Needs a Mental-Health Component
David A. Fullard |
A retired corrections captain writes that without a strong mental-health component, attempts to end financial bail will fail.
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The Slow, Painful Death of Bail in New York City
Jarrett Murphy |
The mayor has limited it. The Council is going to start paying it on some defendants’ behalf. Now the state’s chief judge is taking unprecedented steps to rein it in. And some want to go farther.
Criminal Justice
Experts Debate Whether de Blasio Plan Can be Better than Bail
Jarrett Murphy |
Brooklyn Independent Media’s Bk Live looks at the mayor’s plan to create an alternative system that will use supervision rather than money to get people to come to court.
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Skeptical of Bail System—and of Plans to Reform It
Wendy Davis |
Even as defense lawyers and other advocates say that efforts to reduce the rate of pre-trial imprisonment are long overdue, they’re also expressing reservations about the de Blasio administration plan to offer non-bail supervised release.
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State Senator: Citywide Bail Fund Would Help, Not Hinder, Courts
Gustavo Rivera |
State Sen. Gustavo Rivera argues that low-income New Yorkers “deserve the same access to resources to navigate the justice system as middle-income and high-income residents.”
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Speaker Proposes Bail Fund
Jarrett Murphy |
The taxpayer-underwritten project would front bail money to people accused of low-level crimes—which describes most of the people arrested in New York City.
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Solving Jail Mental Health Crisis … Before Jail
Jarrett Murphy |
Reforms unveiled this week by the de Blasio administration were cast as an effort to improve services for the mentally ill on Rikers Island. But much of the plan focuses on keeping people from entering custody in the first place.
