Bail Reform: It’s Time to Face the Truth
Posted by adminin NewsBEHIND 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…
Bail Reform: Truth in the Garden State
Posted by adminin NewsAlmost 6 months after New Jersey passed Bail Reform, the public is finally starting to see the truth. Bail Reform isn’t everything it was promised to be. In fact, it is the complete opposite. It doesn’t keep bad guys locked up in jail, it doesn’t…
Selling Off Our Public Safety: How Pretrial Advocates Have Turned Accused Criminals into Victims
Posted by adminin NewsBEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF I just finished perusing a new propaganda piece released by the ACLU and an organization called Color of Change. The new anti-bail brochure is a beautiful multi-color, high design report that details the evils of all things related to…
Bail Reform: Texas on My Mind
Posted by adminin NewsBEHIND 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…
Bail Reform Marketing 101: The Myth of 62
Posted by adminin NewsBEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF If you have ever taken a marketing and communications class in school, one of the first lessons you learn is that perception is stronger than reality. If you can get consumers to perceive that your product or brand is…
Bail Reform Fail: If My Child Gets it, Why Don’t the Politicians?
Posted by adminin NewsBEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF As I sat around the dinner table last night with my family, we talked about things that I can only assume most families talk about. How the kids’ days were at school, what our plans were for the Super…
New Jersey Bail Reform
Posted by adminin NewsWith everything going on in the bail industry across the country, now is the time to keep yourself informed. On January 1st, 2017, the entire state of New Jersey moved away from financially secured release and adopted more a D.C. style “detain” or “release for…
Veterans, School Children and Bail Reform, Oh My!
Posted by adminin NewsBEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF This morning I arrived in the office early. I grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down to read through the long list of emails I had received over the last 8 hours. After deleting all the SEO solicitations,…
Illinois Judge Writes a Thorough and Thoughtful Analysis of Bail Reform Movement
Posted by adminin NewsOver the past few years, the Pretrial Justice Institute has spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of taxpayer dollars and grants trying to discredit and eliminate the commercial bail industry. Their strategy has been pretty simple. Travel the country and educate judges and legislators…
Equal Justice: It is Time for a Lesson in Bail Bonding
Posted by adminin NewsThis past week, I was sent a YouTube video from one of our agents. The video was titled, “The Bail Bonds Industry is Horrible.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGKmXpEP1pc&sns=em). The video consisted of an interview with one of Equal Justice Under Law’s founders, Alec Karakatsanis. In the video, Mr.…