Common Sense Facts for the Cashless Bail Debate: Why Financially Secured Release Through a Bail Bond Works Better Than FREE Release Through Cashless Bail Have you ever noticed that the arguments against using bail bonds in the criminal justice system typically go against common sense?…
How Cashless Bail and Bail Reform Policies Are Leading to Preventative Detention The Unintended Consequences of Pretrial Release Activism When activism overrides collaboration in the criminal justice system, the push for cashless bail and bail reform can backfire, steering policies toward preventative detention. This article…
Educating the Internet Together Bail Reform: Differentiating Between Truth and Propaganda Over the past decade or so, we have seen the online content of the bail reform activists increase substantially. From research studies to articles, these well-funded organizations have inundated the online marketplace with their…
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,…
Understanding Bail Reform Research and Propaganda (Extra Credit): SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah This next study examines the outcome of the Bail Reform Act of 2017 passing in Illinois. This piece of legislation eliminated the use of any sort of financially secured…
Crime is and always will be something that impacts each and every one of us. No matter what side of the political spectrum that you sit on, we all want to live in a community that is safe and secure. That is why crime is…
Over the past decade we have seen a purposeful and strategic attack on our criminal justice system. This attack has been promulgated and funded by a small group of progressive billionaires, most notably, the founder of Open Societies Foundation, George Soros. The most powerful aspect…
We recently conducted a state of the bail profession survey amongst bail agents to try and better understand agents’ general impression of the industry, as well as the things they felt were the most important things they wanted from their surety. While the results were…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF When the data can’t speak for itself…the activists speak for it Is it just me or does it seem like every other day now there is an article touting the success of bail reform? In the past few of…
