Bail Reform Fail: If My Child Gets it, Why Don’t the Politicians?
BEHIND 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
With 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!
BEHIND 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
Over 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
This 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.…
National Bail Reform Survey: Public Opposed to FREE Release
In another attempt to gauge the public’s opinion of the ongoing discussion around bail reform, we thought we would expand our last survey’s reach from just Texas to the entire country. In order to maintain an “apple to apple” comparison between the two surveys, we…
The True Colors of Bail Reform
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH BRIAN NAIRIN: Last week an article on the subject of charitable bail funds was published by The Marshall Project, a non-profit criminal justice media outlet. As I read the article expecting the same anti bail rhetoric that usually flows from supporters…
Texas Criminal Justice: Public Opinion Doesn’t Support Bail Reform Movement
One thing that you will not hear public sector pretrial advocates discuss is what the public thinks of bail reform. Because no matter how much they believe that there is a need to abolish commercial bail and reform the so called “injustice” of requiring criminal…
Bail Reform: The True Cost of FREE
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH BRIAN NAIRIN The Pretrial Justice Institute Finally Admits that Public Sector FREE Pretrial Release and Supervision are Too Costly…Their Solution, FREE Release with No Supervision. In my many years of defending the commercial bail industry from public sector advocates, I have…
Determining the Constitutionality of Commercial Bail: An Appealing Fight
As the bail reform advocacy group, Equal Justice Under Law, continues to move across the country searching for ways to challenge the constitutionality of bail schedules with the ultimate goal of eliminating monetary bail, they may have hit a substantial roadblock. According to a press…