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Texas Attorney Ken Good Explains How Proposition 3 Will be Applied in Recent Murder Case
Bail attorney and Professional Bondmen of Texas board member Ken Good explained that this provision shifts more accountability to prosecutors...
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Part 4: The Business of Bail Reform - Who Profits When Commercial Bail Dies
Arnold Ventures has invested $142 million in a wide range of criminal justice reforms since 2011, including $48 million for pretrial justice through the National Partnership for Pretrial Justice.
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Bail Reform and Pretrial Release: Why Serious Crimes Demand Financially Secured Bonds — Not Cashless Bail
In the heated bail reform debate on the topic of pretrial release, the recent article “Bail That Fits the Case: Why Serious Crimes Demand Serious Bond Consideration”, Cary Carlisle, President of the Florida Bail Agents Association, makes a compelling case...
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Bail Reform's Expensive Promise of "Fairness"
In the ongoing debate surrounding bail reform and pretrial release, many jurisdictions have shifted away from traditional financially secured bail bonds toward court-supervised pretrial release programs that emphasize “fairness”...
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Part 3: The Business of Bail Reform Series - Who Profits When Commercial Bail Dies
The latest article in the Business of Bail Reform Series by JL Fullerton, covers electronic monitoring. When Illinois became the first state to eliminate all forms of secured bail in September 2023, the Office of Statewide Pretrial Services...
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Preventing a Failure to Appear Involves More Than Just a Text Message
Bail reform proponents have recently been focusing a lot of their articles and online narrative on the effective nature of text messages. In their opinion, if you want to get someone who is accused of a crime to show up for court all you need to do is send them a text message.
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The Holly Act: Emphasizing Accountability and Putting a Stop to Low-Bonds in Ohio
Last summer, a violent street brawl in downtown Cincinnati gained national attention through viral videos, leaving several people injured—including Holly, an innocent bystander who was knocked unconscious.
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The Prison Policy Initiative's War on Crime Victims
For years, this so called “non-partisan” group, and its broad network of other like-minded activist organizations have organized and focused their efforts on promoting bail reform, cashless bail and anti-crime victim policies.
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Why are Charitable Bail Funds Against Ensuring the Appearance of the Accused with a Financial Guarantee?
In the ongoing debate surrounding bail reform, charitable bail funds and their advocates have flooded media outlets with claims that financially secured surety bonds are ineffective for pretrial release.
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The Business of Bail Reform: Who Profits When Commercial Bail Dies
The world's largest private prison company is one of bail reform's biggest advocates. That fact alone should prompt scrutiny. BI Incorporated, owned by GEO Group (acquired for $415 million in 2011), explicitly discusses bail reform as a business opportunity.
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Warning Washington: Learn From the Mistakes of Philadelphia and the Failings of 10% Deposit Bail
History has shown us that this approach is ineffective. In addition to providing an instant 90% discount on bail, it also creates uncollectible debts, incentivizes flight from justice, and undermines public safety without the oversight of commercial bondsmen.
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The Business of Bail Reform: Who Profits When Commercial Bail Dies - Part 1
Have you ever wondered why so many organizations and businesses are involved in the bail reform movement? Have you ever wondered why billionaire philanthropists spend so much money trying to “re-imagine” our criminal justice system.