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…
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…
Pretrial Risk Assessments (SB1618): Oklahoma, Just Say “NO” Here we go again, another state is falling for the false promise of risk assessments. This time it is Oklahoma. The first question you have to ask yourself is why? Think about it, if progressive California of…
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…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF Typically, when I write bail reform related blogs, I like to focus on the victim side of the issue. Not just because it is the right thing to do, but it just seems that no one is concerned about…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF Earlier this month, a California Public Safety Committee in the Assembly voted out Senate Bill 10. This bill would all but eliminate the private sector commercial bail industry and in its place put a large taxpayer funded government bureaucracy…
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…
