Almost 6 months after New Jersey passed Bail Reform, the public is finally starting to see the truth. Bail Reform isn’t everything it was promised to be. In fact, it is the complete opposite. It doesn’t keep bad guys locked up in jail, it doesn’t…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF I just finished perusing a new propaganda piece released by the ACLU and an organization called Color of Change. The new anti-bail brochure is a beautiful multi-color, high design report that details the evils of all things related to…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF Earlier this week I received an interesting email from a colleague. The email contained a link to a brand new March 2017 study out of Texas A&M University’s Public Policy Institute. As with most documents over 100 pages, I…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF As I sat around the dinner table last night with my family, we talked about things that I can only assume most families talk about. How the kids’ days were at school, what our plans were for the Super…
With everything going on in the bail industry across the country, now is the time to keep yourself informed. On January 1st, 2017, the entire state of New Jersey moved away from financially secured release and adopted more a D.C. style “detain” or “release for…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF This morning I arrived in the office early. I grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down to read through the long list of emails I had received over the last 8 hours. After deleting all the SEO solicitations,…
Over the past few years, the Pretrial Justice Institute has spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of taxpayer dollars and grants trying to discredit and eliminate the commercial bail industry. Their strategy has been pretty simple. Travel the country and educate judges and legislators…
This past week, I was sent a YouTube video from one of our agents. The video was titled, “The Bail Bonds Industry is Horrible.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGKmXpEP1pc&sns=em). The video consisted of an interview with one of Equal Justice Under Law’s founders, Alec Karakatsanis. In the video, Mr.…
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…
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…
