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…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF First off, I would like to apologize because it has been a while since I last wrote a blog. Maybe some of you are thankful for that absence, but hopefully many of you are pleased that I am back…
Last week the American Bail Coalition posted a statement on the latest lawsuit filed by the pretrial activist group Equal Justice Under Law. This time the group filed the lawsuit in California’s state capital, Sacramento. Unlike the previous lawsuit filed in San Francisco, this lawsuit names…
