Criminal Justice Archives - Page 17 of 18

BySean Gardiner 0Comments

Soldiers, Prisoners, Casualties—A Drug War's Characters

Just because the drug trade and the law enforcement crusade against it aren’t as obvious as they were in the past doesn’t mean drugs and the war against them have…

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Jul 2009

BySean Gardiner 0Comments

In the Drug War, a Stalemate?

City Limits estimates that the yearly cost to government for investigation, contraband seizures, arrests, judicial processing, incarceration, parole hearings and probation services for all those arrested in drug cases in…

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Chapter 2: Process and Punishment in Arraignment Courts

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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Chapter 1: The Punishing Price of NYC's Bail System

Many people in New York City’s jails today are behind bars only because they cannot afford the very low bail set in their minor criminal cases. This raises concerns about…

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The Business of Bail: The City's Bail Agents Sing the Blues

When a judge opts not to release a defendant and sets bail that’s higher than he can pay in cash, a commercial bail bond agent decides, in effect, whether the…

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Overdue Finds: The NYPD's Warrants Section

There are somewhere between 160,000 and 1.5 million open warrants in the five boroughs. They represent the caseload of the NYPD’s Warrants Section.

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ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

Clang for a Buck: The Curious Case of Dollar Bails

It’s rare, but it happens: A person gets arrested on multiple charges, has $1 bail set on one, clears the other counts up, but remains in jail for lack of…

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