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.
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…
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.”
