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Texas Lawmakers Restrict Bail and Raise Criminal Penalties, Punt on Prison and Jail Conditions by Chuck Sharman When the Texas legislature adjourned its annual session on June 2, 2025, lawmakers had taken some steps to restrict bail and successfully fought back an effort to expand parole. Most other jail and …
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 …
Colorado Law Creates “Rebuttable Presumption” Against Incarcerating Pregnant Women by On August 7, 2023, a new law took effect in Colorado directing judges to provide bonds and alternatives to incarceration for defendants who are pregnant or who recently gave birth. HB23-1187 was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis (D) …
Brief • March 19, 2020
Filed under: COVID-19, Bail
U.S. v. Stephens, NY, Opinion & Order, Bail Denial, 2020 Case 1:15-cr-00095-AJN Document 2798 Filed 03/19/20 Page 1 of 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 3/19/20 United States of America, –v– 15-cr-95 (AJN) Dante Stephens, OPINION & ORDER Defendant. ALISON J. NATHAN, District Judge: At the …
Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Bail
Court Grants Bail to Ex-Peruvian President Challenging Extradition Due to Solitary Confinement by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell On October 10, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco granted bail to former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, requiring him to be released on a $1 million bond under …
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, …
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 …
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Consumer Watchdog Group Releases Report on Bail and Corrections Industry by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), a Boston-based nonprofit, released a report in March 2019 titled, “Commercialized (In)justice: Consumer Abuses in the Bail and Corrections Industry.” The 62-page report “discusses the growing problem of …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Class-action Settlement in Mississippi “Debtors’ Prison” Case by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In April 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced a settlement in a federal class-action suit filed against the city of Corinth, Mississippi that accused the municipality and its chief Municipal Court judge, John C. Ross, …
Vera Institute of Justice--The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Report, 2018 The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Jacob Kang-Brown, Oliver Hinds, Jasmine Heiss, and Olive Lu June 2018 From The Director The turn of the century marked a new direction for the nation’s prisons and jails: after three decades of …
The Campaign to Close the Workhouse and Promote a New Vision for St. Louis, 2018 -EXECUTIVE SUMMARY- The City of St. Louis condemns hundreds of mostly poor and Black people to suffer in unspeakably hellish and inhumane conditions at the “Workhouse,” officially known as the Medium Security Institution. Over 95% …
Brief • March 9, 2018
Filed under: Bail, Bail Bonds
Mock v. Glynn, GA, PI, Bail, 2018 Case 2:18-cv-00025-LGW-RSB Document 6-1 Filed 03/09/18 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA BRUNSWICK DIVISION Margery Freida Mock and Eric Scott Ogden, Jr., individually and on behalf of those similarly situated^ Case No. (Class Action) Plaintiffs, …
Brief • March 9, 2018
Mock v. Glynn, GA, Motion Class Cert., Bail, 2018 Case 2:18-cv-00025-LGW-RSB Document 4 Filed 03/09/18 Page 1 of 3 FILED U.S DISTRICT COURT BRUNSWICK DIV UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA 20)8 M/IR-9 AM fiBRUNSWICK DIVISION ' AH CLERK Margery Freida Mock and Eric Scott Ogden, …
Brief • March 9, 2018
Filed under: Bail, Bail Bonds
Mock v. Glynn Cty, GA, Complaint, Bail, 2018 Case 2:18-cv-00025-LGW-RSB Document 1 Filed 03/09/18 Page 1 of 30 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA BRUNSWICK DIVISION FILED U.S. DISTRICT COURT BRUNSWICK DIV. Z0I8 m -9 AH 8: 38 CLERK Margery Freida Mock and Eric Scott Ogden, …
Bread for the World Institute - Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger, 2018 BRIEFING PAPER NUMBER 35, FEBRUARY 2018 Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger by Marlysa D. Gamblin Bread for the World Institute provides policy analysis on hunger and poverty, as well as strategies to end it. …
Article • December 12, 2017
Filed under: Bail, Bail Bonds
Efforts to End “Scourge of Money Bail” Meeting with Success by David Reutter By David M. Reutter The initiative by Equal Justice Under Law to end the incarceration pending trial of persons too poor to post bail is reaping positive outcomes.  Each day, there are about 500,00 human beings who …
Article • November 6, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Filed under: Bail, Money/Property, Bail Bonds
Community Funds, Federal Legislation Challenging Bail System from Different Angles by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Kalief Browder was a 16-year-old arrested in New York City in 2012 on charges of stealing a backpack. The charges were later dismissed, but not before he sat in jail on Rikers Island for …
Article • September 12, 2017
Arizona's No-Bail Constitutional Provision for Certain Sex Crimes Violates Federal Constitution, State Supreme Court Says by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On February 9, 2017, the Arizona Supreme Court struck down a state constitutional provision which barred bail in certain sex offense cases where the alleged victim was under 15 …
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
Filed under: Bail, Qualified Immunity
Ninth Circuit: Courtroom Deputy Entitled to Qualified, Not Absolute, Immunity by The Ninth Circuit has held that a courtroom deputy was not entitled to absolute immunity for shoving a bail enforcement agent from a courtroom. The appellate court also found, however, that the deputy was entitled to qualified immunity. Nevada …
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