In another attempt to gauge the public’s opinion of the ongoing discussion around bail reform, we thought we would expand our last survey’s reach from just Texas to the entire country. In order to maintain an “apple to apple” comparison between the two surveys, we…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH BRIAN NAIRIN: Last week an article on the subject of charitable bail funds was published by The Marshall Project, a non-profit criminal justice media outlet. As I read the article expecting the same anti bail rhetoric that usually flows from supporters…
One thing that you will not hear public sector pretrial advocates discuss is what the public thinks of bail reform. Because no matter how much they believe that there is a need to abolish commercial bail and reform the so called “injustice” of requiring criminal…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH BRIAN NAIRIN The Pretrial Justice Institute Finally Admits that Public Sector FREE Pretrial Release and Supervision are Too Costly…Their Solution, FREE Release with No Supervision. In my many years of defending the commercial bail industry from public sector advocates, I have…
