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... University were recruited as Vera staff interviewers and received a period of training during which they learned how the arraignment court functioned. IV. Launching the Manhattan Bail Project On October 16, 1961, after months of detailed planning, the Manhattan Bail Project began operations. Specifics...

...Jerome E. McElroy Abstract Concern over the injustice of the money bail system led the founders of the Vera Institute of Justice to design and implement the Manhattan Bail Project in 1961. The Project demonstrated that people with strong ties to the community could be safely released from custody...

...Jon Wool Abstract New Orleans in 2011 finds itself facing many of the same problems New York City faced in 1961 when the founders of the Vera Institute of Justice launched the Manhattan Bail Project: Too many people are held in pretrial detention who could be released without risk to public safety...

... Bail Project Manhattan Summons Project Manhattan Bowery Project Experiments in the Criminal Justice System1 Herbert Sturz* Senior Adviser, Open Society Foundations 4 The primary focus of the Vera Institute of Justice has been on the relationship of poverty to the administration of criminal justice...

... & Corrections, Vera Institute of Justice Evan Elkin Director, Department of Planning & Government Innovation, Vera Institute of Justice I. Introduction Fifty years after the launch of Vera s first demonstration project, the Manhattan Bail Project, Vera continues to identify problems and propose solutions...

.... The pretrial services model launched in 1961 as the Manhattan Bail Project continues to influence the evolving field of pretrial decision-making and services, and it remains the template to which other jurisdictions gravitate. The reprint from Vera s Ten-Year Report describing the project, originally published...

... not serve the public interest increase people s experience of fairness and safety in the aftermath of harm The project is the first of its kind in this country and, just as with the Manhattan Bail Project in 1961, Vera hopes that its demonstration and evaluation will contribute crucial and unprecedented...

...: 21 percent of 7.988 made bail Manhattan: 24 percent of 7,330 made bail Queens: 33 percent of 4,333 made bail.38 (Source: New York City Department of Correction) New York City Courts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in all ve boroughs. Founded in 1973 as the Vera Institute s Manhattan Bail...

... that demands innovative prosecutorial engagement is the traf c debt space. The law in New York, as in other parts of the country, provides for jailable offenses if an individual fails to pay traf c debt.42 Starting April 1, 2018, the Manhattan DA s Of ce implemented Project Green Light, which allows those...

... made NDS different? Structured differently from court-based public defenders, its physical location miles from the Manhattan courthouses but close to both its clients homes and the scenes of many of the crimes it investigated allowed staff to find witnesses and document clients backgrounds quickly...

... of U.S. history, release pretrial was only possible by posting a bond or bail. However, in 1961, the Vera Institute of Justice was born out of a project that introduced the concept of release on one s own recognizance based on an objective screening for risk of ight. The Manhattan Bail Project...

... of years after I left Yale. I had been working in the Manhattan District Attorney s Office, often applying lessons I had learned in Dan s Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 248 250, ISSN 1053-9867 electronic ISSN 1533-8363 ©2009 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. Please direct...

...-several 7 Table D-4.U.S. District Courts Criminal Defendants Disposed of, by Type of Disposition and Offense, During the 12-Month Period Ending June 30, 2023. www.uscourts.gov/data-tablenumbers/d-4. 8 Id. 9 C.E. Ares, A. Rankin & H. Sturz, The Manhattan Bail Project: An Interim Report on the Use of Pre...

... to diverting gun possession cases.9 In fact, bail, diversion, and plea policies are largely left to district attorneys and often predetermine the sentence that will ultimately be imposed. B. Bail, Diversion, and Plea-Bargaining After the decision to prosecute, the case outcome continues to rest largely...

... in the criminal justice system to examine the policy and culture changes taking place in this arena. The summit highlighted a vast array of innovative alternative approaches to criminal justice, currently isolated in pockets throughout the country. I had the privilege of directing the project. Over two days...

..., as twenty-three people were killed across the city the most in a single day since 2013.24 If these trends continue, the city is projected to nish 2020 with more than 1,700 shooting victims, the highest total since at least 2007. Figure 9 depicts Philadelphia s 2020 homicide numbers. A homicide spike...

...). 4 Typically caught with hundreds of kilos of high-purity cocaine, they face serious federal penalties, including a mandatory minimum statutory sentence of ten years in prison. Our interest in this population is part of a broader project on the extraterritorial reach of U.S. law. Here, however...