Part 3: Dr. Robert Morris Dr. Robert Morris (2013/2014) / Clipper, Morris & Russell-Kaplan (2017) – Dallas County, Texas Pretrial Release Study In Part 3 of our series, The Six Most Significant Bail Studies, we look at a powerful study done in Dallas County, Texas,…
Part 2: Helland & Tabarrok, The Fugitive Evidence on Public Versus Private Law Enforcement from Bail Jumping (2004) In the ongoing debate over bail reform and pretrial release, one question stands out: What actually works best at getting defendants back to court? The second bail…
Part 1: The Cohen & Reaves Study The Most Comprehensive Pretrial Release Analysis Ever Conducted and Why Its Findings Remain Unrivaled Pretrial Release of Felony Defendants in State Courts, 1990–2004 In November 2007, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) statisticians Thomas H. Cohen, Ph.D., and Brian…
Bail Studies: The Six Most Significant Surety Bail Studies Ever Conducted The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth Over the last 30 years, there have been six key pretrial release studies that have not only supported the effectiveness of secured release over…
AIA Surety’s Eric Granof on the Bail Post with Ken Good In the latest episode of the Texas podcast the Bail Post, Eric Granof, a longtime voice in the bail industry, strongly criticizes the current push for bail reform and pretrial release policies. He argues…
Do Charitable Bail Funds Even Understand What Surety Bonds Are? Why is the Bail Project Against Surety Bonds…Maybe They Don’t Understand Them Over the past several months, charitable bail funds and bail reform advocates have been inundating the media with articles and research that show…
The Truth About Zero Bail: It Makes Zero Sense About 3 years ago, the District Attorney out of Yolo County, Jeff Reisig, conducted a simple research project. He wanted to know whether releasing criminal defendants on zero bail, also called cashless bail, was an effective…
The Hidden Dangers of Bail Reform How Pretrial Risk Assessments Decrease the Effectiveness of Cashless Bail and Pretrial Release Systems In the push for bail reform, pretrial risk assessments have emerged as a supposed solution to eliminate surety/cash bail systems and promote fairer pretrial release…
The Top 5 Bail Stories of 2025 As we approach the end of another trip around the sun, we always like to look back on the year and assess how we did. While 2025 was an up and down year for the bail profession, overall,…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF If the Bail Project Hates Cash Bail So Much, Why Do They Utilize it Every Day? Happy New Year everyone! Another year has ended, and we can all look towards 2025 with hope and confidence that the failed experiment,…
