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OPINION: Time to reform state's unjust bail system
Under North Carolina’s unjust cash bail system, when people are arrested – even wrongly – they must pay hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars to be released before their court date.
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States And Cities Take Steps To Reform 'Dishonest' Bail System
U.S. Jurisdictions Take Steps To Reform 'Dishonest' Bail System As many as a third of defendants in urban areas remain in jail because they could not post bail. An increasing number of states are ...
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Even blue states are learning bail reform is a disaster. Red states are ...
Instead, bail reform lets extremely dangerous people avoid pretrial detention. Red states could be next. Blue states wanted to fix their bail systems and help non-violent offenders.
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Commentary: Public overwhelmingly supports reforming bail system
Quietly and with little fanfare, The Pew Charitable Trusts released a stunning report detailing Americans' opinions on bail reform. I'll cut to the chase: The public overwhelmingly supports ...
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Advocates hope faith and data can right an unjust NC bail system ...
Bail reform has hit a wall in NC’s General Assembly, but two Raleigh men think they can fix a broken bail system by harnessing the moral power of faith groups.
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California has a ragged road to bail reform - Los Angeles Times
Senate Bill 10 is California’s road to bail reform — a rough, ragged road of unknown length, lined with hazards and requiring tunnels that are not yet dug and bridges not yet built.
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Opinion: Bail reform is solution looking for a problem
Bail reform was in the spotlight again this past week – Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld’s guest column "It's time to adopt bail reform in Cincinnati," (April 20) and The Enquirer ...
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Ending Cash Bail - Los Angeles Times
On Oct. 1 Los Angeles County transitions to a new way of administering pre-arraignment justice that doesn’t use cash bail for most crimes. The Times editorial page is examining these and other ...
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Is Bail Reform Soft on Crime? Not When Done Well. - Governing
Despite some fear-mongering rhetoric amid post-COVID spikes in crime and pushback on reforms previously enacted, modernizing and improving the bail system does not have to be seen as soft on crime.
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In prison reform, fix bail system first - Detroit Free Press
In Michigan, the number of people incarcerated grew by 171% between 1980 and 2016, when more than 41,100 people were imprisoned.As a result of that massive increase, the state spent $2 billion on ...
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Opinion: Bail reform needed to keep violent offenders off the streets - MSN
The Waukesha Christmas parade attack was caused by a man with a lengthy violent criminal record, and the Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act aims to protect communities by defining bail ...
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