Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha N. Braveboy announced her office will no longer request cash bail as a condition of release, but some worry the change could lead to an increase in GPS monitoring or judges holding people without bond.
An interview with our Bail Disruptor Madeline Porta by NPR affiliate KUAF, focused on one of our newest sites: Northwest Arkansas.
Risk assessment tools were supposed to make the way Kentucky courts released defendants from pretrial incarceration more fair. Instead, they benefited defendants who were whiter and wealthier than others, making disparities worse.
A local news story about our newest site opening in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Bronx Defenders, where The Bail Project started in 2007, releases a statement reversing its support for constructing four new jails in New York City as a condition of closing Rikers Island.
“Across the country, bail bond companies like the ones owned by the Ledermans are up in revolt, fighting back against states’ efforts to rethink and overhaul an antiquated money bail system.”
Under The Arch, a podcast put out by our friends at ArchCity Defenders and Action St. Louis, sat down with The Bail Project’s Mike Milton and former TBP director of strategic partnerships Thomas Harvey to talk about pretrial incarceration in the city.
A new analysis by Prison Policy Initiative finds that people who are jailed have much higher rates of social, economic, and health problems that cannot and should not be addressed through incarceration.
This story details how difficult it can be for non-citizens to be free from federal custody even if they’re able to post bail. In the case of a man falsely accused of bringing meth into the U.S., posting bail would have sent him to ICE detention and put him on the path to deportation.
“The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to cancel a nearly $2 billion contract to build a mental health-focused jail and will instead explore funding community-based mental health and substance abuse care for residents.”