{"id":7149,"date":"2010-03-10T19:20:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T03:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-52-8-204-4.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/uncategorized\/pretrial-release-programs-looking-to-buy-some-facts\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:35:58","slug":"pretrial-release-programs-looking-to-buy-some-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiasurety.com\/bail\/pretrial-release-programs-looking-to-buy-some-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretrial Release Programs Looking to Buy Some Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) sent out their monthly newsletter on Friday \u00a0with a story about a new tool they have developed intended to help Pretrial Services Agencies <\/b>identify the risk associated with a specific defendant.\u00a0 According to the PJI, this new tool, \u201cThe Pretrial Risk Assessment is an objective, quantifiable instrument that provides a consistent and valid method of predicting risk of failure-to-appear, new criminal arrest, and technical violations while on pretrial release<\/b>.\u201d\u00a0 As I read this, I could hardly hold back the laughter.\u00a0 To hear the words \u201cobjective, quantifiable and Pretrial Services<\/b>\u201d all in the same sentence is not only laughable but pretty amazing.\u00a0 Especially since nothing they do, especially in terms of their effectiveness, has been quantifiable by them.\u00a0 In fact, I recently read through the ongoing conversation on the \u201cFacebookers Against Pretrial Release\u201d<\/a><\/b> Facebook page. \u00a0This community of over 600 people talks of how they have been sitting around for months waiting for any kind of \u201cproof, numbers or statistics\u201d that backup any of the claims being made by Pretrial Service Agencies <\/a><\/b>and their ability to lower jail populations and reduce costs. \u00a0We all know from the Pasco County Florida<\/b><\/a> example that doesn\u2019t happen, let alone their inability to track defendants and lower their rates of recidivism.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the hope of finally trying to justify their existence, Pretrial Agency <\/b>supporters have developed this new tool based on research conducted by a company called Luminosity.\u00a0 Luminosity as a group is extremely pro-government sponsored pretrial release and obviously anti-bail\u2026and to be honest, in my opinion, anything but objective in their research.\u00a0 So it looks…<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) sent out their monthly newsletter on Friday \u00a0with a story about a new tool they have developed intended to help Pretrial Services Agencies identify the risk associated with a specific defendant.\u00a0 According to the PJI, this new tool, \u201cThe Pretrial… <\/p>\n

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