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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 • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
New Hampshire Rolls Back Bail Reform by When New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) signed HB 592 into law on March 25, 2025, she also goosed the state’s incarceration rate by giving back pretrial detention power to state judges and reducing the leniency and flexibility that had been provided to …
New York Lifts Hiring Ban on Fired Striking Prison Guards, Announces Early Prisoner Releases by Faced with ongoing short-staffing after firing 2,000 prison guards for their wildcat strike, New York Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello announced on April 1, 2025, that the agency would …
Pardoned Insurrectionists Brought to D.C. Jail Demanded Others’ Immediate Release by When Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) returned to office on January 20, 2025, he pardoned some 1,500 prisoners convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol to keep him in office in January 2021, after his loss to former Pres. Joseph …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Illinois Lawmaker Asks State Prison Guards to Report Immigrant Prisoners Nearing Release—to Her by The Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) has directed its employees to follow the law, specifically 2017’s TRUST Act, which requires them to notify federal authorities that an immigrant is about to be released from a state …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Legal Gaffe Prolongs Case of Former St. Louis Detainee Held Eight Months After Dismissal of Charges by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Thomas Clarke On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decided a civil rights complaint brought by former St. Louis jail detainee Michael Jones, …
$25 Million Contempt Fine Prompts Release of Pretrial Detainees from Philadelphia Lockups by The Philadelphia Department of Prisons (PDP) announced the release of 100 pretrial detainees on November 5, 2024. The detainees, all held on bail they couldn’t pay, were released during a series of emergency bail hearings that began …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Bail/Pretrial Release
Maryland County Wins Fight to Let Bureaucrats Make Pretrial Release Decisions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   There’s something rotten with bail decisions in Prince George’s County, but as of March 29, 2024, the federal court for the District of Maryland isn’t going to do anything about it. …
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) …
Unable to Post Bail, Detainee Starves to Death in Arkansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A lawsuit filed in federal court for the Western District of Arkansas on January 13, 2023, makes a stunning claim: That a man was left to starve to death in jail because …
Illinois Eases Restrictions on Prisoners Released Under Supervision by On July 28, 2023, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a new law that eases restrictions on released prisoners still under state supervision. SB 423, which took effect in January 2024, modifies requirements to complete the final stages of a sentence, …
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 • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Nearly $75 Million Class-Action Settlement Reached For Delayed Releases from N.Y.C. Jails by On July 12, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of New York granted final approval to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging detainees in New York City jails were forced to wait three hours …
Brief • July 18, 2023
Filed under: Bail/Pretrial Release
Rowe v. Raoul, IL, Opinion, Cash Bail, 2023 2023 IL 129248 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS (Docket No. 129248) JAMES R. ROWE, Kankakee County State’s Attorney, et al., Appellees, v. KWAME RAOUL, Attorney General of Illinois, et al, Appellants. Opinion filed July 18, 2023. CHIEF JUSTICE …
New York Bail Reform Laws Reduced Recidivism, Contrary to Critics’ Claims by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A study released on March 14, 2023, revealed that New York’s controversial new bail laws have not led to more rearrests of offenders, as some politicians claimed. In fact, according to the study’s …
Brief • May 16, 2023
Filed under: Bail/Pretrial Release
Urquidi v. City of Los Angeles, CA, Memorandum Decision and Order, Pretrial Release, 2023 E-Served: May 16 2023 3:46PM PDT Via Case Anywhere FILED 8upe,for-Court ot CallfomJe County d Loa Angeies 1 MAY-16 2023 2 0rrMW.9aJD!.~Olk:et.orlcdCoo,t 3 By: A. Moralee, Deputy 4 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA …
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 …
Brief • April 10, 2023
Filed under: Bail/Pretrial Release
Urquidi v. City of Los Angeles, CA, Complaint, Pretrial Release, 2023 E-Served: Apr 10 2023 2:12PM PDT Via Case Anywhere 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 BRAD D. BRIAN (SBN 79001) brad.brian@mto.com ROHIT K. SINGLA (SBN 213057) rohit.singla@mto.com VICTORIA A. …
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 …
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