Did Pretrial Justice Institute Convince Bureau of Justice Statistics to Soften 22 Years of Studies Results?<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n
Calabasas, CA (PRWEB<\/a>) April 2, 2010 — On March 26, 2010 the Pretrial Justice Institute announced that The Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)<\/b> had issued a Data Advisory for the State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) data. For more than two decades, the BJS has routinely tracked millions of state court felons to determine how commercial bail bond <\/b>release compares with unsecured release in getting persons back to court.<\/p>\n For twenty-two years that arm of the U.S. Justice Department has published its findings in a report called Bureau of Justice Statistics Pretrial Release <\/b>of Felony Defendants, and every time commercial bail<\/b> came out on top significantly. The studies also demonstrated that not only does commercial bail do a much better job in terms of failures to appear, but it also dramatically out performs unsecured release in holding down recidivism<\/p>\n It is these findings that AIA<\/b>, the nation\u2019s oldest and largest family of bail bond insurance companies<\/b><\/a>, published in a booklet titled \u201cTaxpayer Funded Pretrial Release: A Failed System.”<\/b><\/a>\u00a0 Our booklet shows this information and reveals another piece of information they are not telling their audience, that they are not the most effective form of release for a defendant pending trial.\u201d<\/p>\n This cries out for passage of Citizens Right to know law in every state where pretrial service agencies operate. The Citizens Right to Know Bill will require pretrial service agencies to report their performance details. Without this bill taxpayers have no idea where their tax dollars are being spent. AIA and its affiliate surety insurance companies are working diligently with legislative leaders across the country for passage of this important legislation.<\/p>\n