No Place For Victims in Criminal Justice Reform
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF For the past several months I have been lucky enough to do some work with a woman who is a true advocate for justice. She spends countless hours trying to defend those people who can’t defend themselves. She gives…
Defending Bail: A Quest for Truth
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF Over the past several weeks, I have been on an important quest across the country. Okay, it’s not really a quest, but it sounds a whole lot better than simply saying I have been travelling around a lot. From…
Bail Reform: Why Don’t They Listen?
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF Embed from Getty Images If you have been paying attention to what is going on with the Bail Reform movement across the country, then you for sure you heard what is going on in Harris County, Texas. A couple…
Bail Reform: It’s Time to Face the Truth
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…
Bail Reform: Truth in the Garden State
Almost 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
BEHIND 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…