Click here to read all posts in our Money Bail series, including the introductory post presenting an LPE perspective on pretrial detention. Ending money bail will not itself produce an effective and just pretrial system. The wonderful prior posts in this series have explored several reasons why this is so. I would like to add one more: Ending…
Click here to read all posts in our Money Bail series, including the introductory post presenting an LPE perspective on pretrial detention. Recent years have seen an explosion in calls to reform bail laws across the country. California and New York, among other states, witnessed the launch of grassroots campaigns made up of, and led by,…
Click here to read all posts in our Money Bail series, including the introductory post presenting an LPE perspective on pretrial detention and Part I of this post on “Moving from Ending Money Bail to Demanding Pretrial Freedom.” We direct bail funds in Chicago, Colorado, Connecticut, and Massachusetts that are deep in the fight to end…
Click here to read all posts in our Money Bail series, including the introductory post presenting an LPE perspective on pretrial detention. As directors of community bail funds in Chicago, Colorado, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, we know that money bail is not and has never been the entire or only problem. As tempting as it is to believe…
Click here to read all posts in our Money Bail series, including the introductory post presenting an LPE perspective on pretrial detention. Criminal punishment system reforms and reformers have gained traction in jurisdictions across the United States. At the same time, movements for prison-industrial complex (PIC) abolition have grown in size and visibility. New York State…
This is the first post in our series on Money Bail. Click here to read all posts in the series. It is no longer controversial to say that our current system of money bail is flawed. When more than 400,000 people are incarcerated pretrial at any one time—a majority there because they cannot afford the amount…