Like cash bail, pretrial electronic monitoring is a flawed policy that does not enhance public safety or improve the likelihood that a person returns to court. Instead, it punishes people…
Together, with data scientists and legal scholars, we argue that pretrial algorithms, also known as risk assessment tools, disproportionately harm people of color, oversimplify complex individual and case outcomes, undermine…
As faith leaders, we stand against House Bill 313, which would greatly restrict charitable organizations like The Bail Project, which helps poor people who cannot afford bail.
The Bail Project offers the following framework as a starting point for grounding bail and pretrial reform in a broader vision of democracy, progress, and collective wellbeing.