Eroding Accountability: How Bail Reform is Creating a Two-Tiered Justice System Ability-to-pay schemes and equity-driven policies are not making the justice system better but are instead creating a system where some groups of people can commit crimes and other groups can’t. In a functioning criminal…
The Dangerous Myth of “Evidence-Based” Bail Reform: How Three Prominent Studies Collapse Under Real-World Scrutiny For years, bail reform advocates have conducted many high-profile studies and reported them as ironclad proof that eliminating or dramatically weakening surety bail is both safe and effective. Three of…
The “Willful Non-Appearance” Trap: How Bail Reform Activists are Eroding Accountability In the push for bail reform and expanded pretrial release, some jurisdictions have quietly rewritten a core enforcement tool: redefining “failure to appear” (FTA) as “willful non-appearance.” What sounds like a minor semantic tweak—adding…
Accountability Matters: A Simple Text is Not Enough to Keep us Safe How Bail Agents Outperform Automated Texts in Getting Defendants to Court Lately, there have been a lot of articles being written on the value of a simple text reminder in the criminal justice…
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…
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…
Bail Reform Misinformation: Why Searching for the Truth on Bail Reform is Harder Than You Think Understanding Bail Reform Misinformation in the Digital Age The Challenge of Finding Truth Online About Bail Reform In a world of disinformation, misinformation and propaganda, it is extremely hard…
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…
Understanding Bail Reform Research and Propaganda (Part 2 of 4): The Bail Project Tulsa, Oklahoma Study As we close out October and head into November, “Cashless Bail” is still making headlines across the country. Ever since President Trump’s August 25th executive order, bail reform has…
