Part 4: Dr. Michael Block – The Effectiveness and Cost of Secured vs Unsecured Release Block, “The Effectiveness and Cost of Secured and Unsecured Release in California’s Large Urban Counties” (2005) Powerful Evidence for the Effectiveness and Cost Savings of Financially Secured Surety Bonds The…
The Misleading Pretrial Numbers Game How Cashless Bail Supporters Inflate Court Appearance Stats In the heated debate over cashless bail policies, supporters routinely highlight impressive court appearance rates, often claiming 85% to 95% success or higher, as evidence that releasing defendants without money bail or…
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…
Why We Fight for Bail Accountability. Appearance. Justice. The bail profession keeps the system working. As a surety representative in the bail profession, you spend a great deal of time traveling across the country, working with bail agents, state associations, and other criminal justice stakeholders.…
Washington State Bail Reform The False Narrative Behind Washington State’s Proposed Court Rules A Five Article Expose By JL Fullerton For many years, Washington State has had one of the most effective bail systems in the country. The product of a bipartisan task force, Washington’s…
The Pitfalls of the 10% Deposit Bail System: A Billion-Dollar Lesson from Philadelphia Why Washington State Should Reject Recently Proposed Court Rules to Implement a 10% Deposit Bail System There are three main methods by which accused individuals can gain pretrial release. Each of these…
Bail Reform Success Bail Reform Advocates Finally Have Proof That Bail Reform Works in One Jurisdiction…It is Commonly Known as FANTASYLAND! No matter how many times they say it, or how many times they write it, free release on cashless bail will NEVER be as…
