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...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...

... obligations if the individual is found guilty. Procedural justice theory is a useful framework for understanding bail processes. Individuals subject to bond conversion may experience distrust towards a system whose policies are not transparent, potentially reducing compliance with the law. We conduct...

... a comprehensive pretrial services system. Following in the footsteps of the Manhattan Bail Project, the work will create a carefully conceived and locally sensitive pretrial services system, one that will result in a fairer and more efficient criminal justice system and a safer community. © The Ohio State...

... for technical probation violations and not new criminal offenses. This pandemic requires us all to think differently and bear in mind the paramount danger to the public we cause by ignoring public health, District Attorney Krasner said. Our effort to reform the cash bail system to date is already a success...

... apt to receive a tougher sentence. I. Vera takes action The need for reform in this inherited system of combined rationality and injustice had long been recognized, but action had been rare. [In 1961,] Vera s investigators set out to learn everything possible about bail practices and about other...

.... Insofar as Vera has any overall modus operandi, it is to spot individual problems in the way our system of criminal justice operates and to work with the relevant agencies to bring about change. As its first project, Vera undertook, in 1961, the study of the administration of bail.3 In New York City, each...

..., this piece uses personal history to explore the different financial pressure points used in the criminal legal system: the ecosystem of cash bail, fines, and fees. It outlines differences in the ways such pressure is applied depending on a defendant’s economic standing, and argues that it amounts to a form...

... that those who are in custody. Money and race play out in the bail system like they do in every other part of the criminal legal system. In addition to shorter sentences, the conditions of con nement faced by wealthy people (who can hire consultants to try to improve placement in a prison system) can...

... can also have devastating community consequences. Increasingly, prosecutors are being identi ed as a driving force behind mass incarceration a level of imprisonment unprecedented in our history, unparalleled across the globe, and marked by stark racial disparities.1 The federal system, while...

... to high risk. Many defendants considered low risk for ight or recidivism remain detained in jails because they cannot afford bail.19 The state bail system is coming under intense scrutiny because counties need jail beds to house the new AB 109 population. Counties that have jail caps...

... criminal cases ending in jury trial, and similar data in states.4 Of course, many products that required assembly by hand centuries ago can now be manufactured in a fraction of the time by machines, but ef ciency is not the only value, or perhaps even the most important one, in a system of justice. Still...

... prison system and reliance on nancial sanctions represents both a lack of progress on a societal level and a major barrier to reintegration among people, like myself, who are trying to move on with their lives. The Eighth Amendment states that [e]xcessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive nes...

..., the establishment of sentencing systems in their fairest and most sensible formulations. The commonality is doubly unsurprising given Dan s signal role in encouraging and shepherding Vera s efforts to partner with government in often unique and new ways to improve the systems people rely on for safety and justice...

..., the continue d exis tence of racial and gender disparities, as found in the literature, indic ates either that remaining judicial dis cretion is being exercis ed in a racially or gender bias ed manner, or that there are other sources of such dis parity within the sente ncing system that have yet to be fully...

... approaches in recent decades, imposing fines and fees in criminal cases without clear regard for ability to pay or the counterproductive impacts of these schemes. In the federal system, criminal fines are often uncollected due to inability to pay. I conclude by addressing law and policy reforms...

... to reduce jail populations by recommending that cash not be a part of bail, offering guilty pleas for sentences that are not excessive, and limiting supervision after release. (Krasner) Low rates of recidivism will help create the political will to invest in communities and people rather than jails...

... impacts often in determinative ways how a person fares throughout the process. We looked at the cash bail system, which has come to be widely regarded as causing unnecessary incarceration among people who are not a danger to the community or a ight risk, who wind up incarcerated because of their lack...

... trend: a wave of newly elected prosecutors who have explicitly committed to changing their of ce policies in order to undo overincarceration. Many of these rollbacks focus on reducing the frontdoor footprint of our justice system, whether by (1) enacting bail reform to reduce the number of people...

... SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 34, NO. 5 JUNE 2022 331 332 3 See generally Christine S. Scott-Hayward & Henry F. Fradella, Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System 129 51 (2019) (summarizing research). 4 Jails are frequently overcrowded and lack...

...William Hall Abstract Reform of government systems is not a straight-forward process. Best understanding how to identify the need for change, the options for change, and the individuals needed to implement the change can be determinative of whether your reform efforts will succeed or fail...