Letter: Do away with cash bail
A letter written by our Bail Disruptor in Detroit, Rasha Almulaiki.
A letter written by our Bail Disruptor in Detroit, Rasha Almulaiki.
A summary of court ordered bail reform in Galveston, Houston, New Orleans and St. Louis.
The Economist spoke with our client and team in Indianapolis about the stigma, cost, and difficulty of electronic monitoring as an alternative to cash bail.
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors has authorized the Public Defender to expand their work with the Bail Project to the Van Nuys courthouse, after a successful pilot program in Compton.
From the video:
“Pre-trial detention has shifted from brick and mortar prisons to ankle monitors for people that have yet to be charged with a crime. Advocates say that it’s an alternative form of incarceration as they see an increasing number of people held without bond.”
Had the 2020 reforms been in place in 2018, the courts would have been required to order some form of release without bail in an additional 20,349 cases.