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Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Illinois Pretrial Incarceration Becomes Less Random A Year After Elimination of Cash Bail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter One year after Illinois eliminated cash bail, state courts are not only remanding fewer people to jail to await trial but also engaging in more deliberation about pretrial detention. Those …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Prison Reform, Bail, Bail Bonds
Cuyahoga County Judges Vowed to Reform the Bail System. Here’s What Happened. by Ilica Mahajan, Rachel Dissell by Ilica Mahajan and Rachel Dissell Court officials informally changed their bail-setting practices for felony cases. Now, fewer people have to pay to get out of jail, a Marshall Project analysis shows. I …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Alabama Jail Accused of Granting Detainee’s Medical Bond Just Before Death to Avoid Costly Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Alabama’s Dallas County Jail (DCJ) has a “scheme” of releasing very ill detainees to avoid the cost of their medical care. That explosive allegation lay at the …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Federal Judge Calls BOP Brooklyn Lockup Too Deplorable to House Defendant by The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a massive federal jail in Brooklyn, New York, is known for its harsh conditions. So harsh that on January 4, 2024, U.S. District Court Judge Jesse M. Furman refused to send a convicted …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Resistance to Bail Reform Powered By Untruthful Scaremongering by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A July 10, 2023, report by Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) showed that measures of public safety after cash bail reform reflected “decreases or negligible increases in crime or re-arrest rates.” The report revealed that the …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Cash Bail Eliminated in Illinois, Reduced in Los Angeles County by In separate decisions on the same day, the Supreme Court of Illinois and the Superior Court of Los Angeles County reformed their jurisdictions’ cash bail systems on July 18, 2023. Illinois became the first state in the nation to …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
California Bail Bondsman Accused of Faking Captures to Bilk Courts by A California bail bondsman was arrested on June 2, 2023, for allegedly using phony photos to defraud several county governments of $528,000 in bail refunds for defendants who in reality had never been apprehended. Fausto Alitano, 60, who was …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Challenge Survives to Maryland County’s Cash Bond Program by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Finding that changes in pretrial release procedures of Prince George’s County “may or may not be ameliorative,” the federal court for the District of Maryland on June 7, 2023, refused to dismiss a complaint filed …
Article • June 22, 2023
Millionaire Florida Child Porn Convict’s Escape Thwarted by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott April 12, 2023, would have been Independence Day for Florida millionaire and child porn collector John Manchec – if only someone had not ratted him out, according to Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers. Manchec, …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
“Slap On the Wrist” for California Bail Agents Who Hired Bounty Hunter Who Killed Their Client by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins As of December 1, 2022, the CaliforniaDepartment of Insurance (DOI) had decided to let two bail agents keep their licenses, even though they hired a bounty hunter who …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from PLN July, 2022
Filed under: Bail Bonds
California Court Rules Bail Bond Companies Must Give Cosigners Financial Impact Notice by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 29, 2021, the Court of Appeal for the First District of California decided that a “bail bond premium financing agreement” is a consumer credit contract and, under California …
Punitive Surveillance, 2022 COPYRIGHT © 2022 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW ASSOCIATION PUNITIVE SURVEILLANCE Kate Weisburd* Budget constraints, bipartisan desire to address mass incarceration, and the COVID-19 crisis in prisons have triggered state and federal officials to seek alternatives to incarceration. As a result, invasive electronic surveillance—such as GPS-equipped ankle monitors, smartphone …
Publication • 2022
CFPB-Justice Involved Individuals and the Consumer Financial Marketplace-Jan. 2022 CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU | JANUARY 2022 Justice-Involved Individuals and the Consumer Financial Marketplace C cial e r Finan C o n s uctimon Bureau Prote Table of contents Table of contents......................................................................................................... 1 Executive summary..................................................................................................... 2 1. Introduction........................................................................................................... 3 2. Pretrial …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Bail Bonds
Illinois First State to Abolish Cash Bail by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen Illinois has become the first state in the country to completely eliminate the use of cash bail. The bill signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker in February 2021 was the result of a multi-year effort by …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
CFPB and Three States Sue Over Predatory Immigrant Bail and GPS Scam by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A federal lawsuit alleges that Nexus Services, Inc., “preys on consumers held in federal detention centers by offering to pay for consumers’ immigration bonds to secure their release.” In exchange, the …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: Advocacy, Bail Bonds
Interview: Alec Karakatsanis of the Civil Rights Corps on Money Bail and Debtors’ Prisons by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein Alec Karakatsanis is the founder and executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Civil Rights Corps. He previously worked as a civil rights lawyer and public defender with the Special Litigation …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: Bail Bonds
National Consumer Law Center, Commercialized (In)Justice, Litigation Guide, 2020 COMMERCIALIZED (IN)JUSTICE LITIGATION GUIDE: APPLYING CONSUMER LAWS TO COMMERCIAL BAIL, PRISON RETAIL, AND PRIVATE DEBT COLLECTION By Ariel Nelson, Brian Highsmith, Alex Kornya, and Stephen Raher National Consumer Law Center® June 2020 © Copyright 2020, National Consumer Law Center, Inc. All …
Article • February 5, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
Exonerated Kentucky Man’s High Bail Prevented His Release for Six Years by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter After nearly six years of languishing in jail because he could not afford a quarter-million dollar bond, a jury in Jefferson County, Kentucky acquitted Eugene “Red” Mitchell. The jury’s September 18, …
Worth Rises: Paying for Jail - How County Jails Extract Wealth from New York Communities, 2019 PAYING FOR JAIL How County Jails Extract Wealth from New York Communities DE C EMBE R 2 01 9 C O- PUBL IS H E D BY: WO RTH RISES Worth Rises is a …
Vera Institute of Justice - Gatekeepers: The Role of Police in Ending Mass Incarceration, 2019 Gatekeepers: The Role of Police in Ending Mass Incarceration S. Rebecca Neusteter, Ram Subramanian, Jennifer Trone, Mawia Khogali, and Cindy Reed August 2019 From the Director Reforming the criminal justice system has become a bipartisan …
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