Please enjoy the third installment of Jerry’s ongoing 4 part blog post on the failures of the Pretrial Justice Institute. PJI’s second swing and a miss focuses on their claim that pretrial services agencies perform just as well, if not better, than commercial bail in getting defendants back to court.
In my last article on the “Three Strikes And You’re Out Pretrial Justice Institute!” I wrote about their first miss: their claim that commercial bail should be done away with because it violates the presumption of innocence doctrine. We very clearly showed the fallacy of their claim, thereby demonstrating that their first attempt to justify the basis of their existence ( to use our federal tax money to get rid of commercial bail ), so that was strike one. Our objective is to show that they cannot come up with one single sound reason why commercial bail should be abolished.
Read the full artcile by clicking the link, Behind The Paper with Jerry Watson.