The announcement is coupled with the release of a new report that summarizes the organization’s local impact to-date and provides recommendations to improve the state and local pretrial systems.
In response to yesterday’s raid of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund offices and the subsequent arrest of three of its staff members, The Bail Project issued the following statement.
Bail schedules perpetuated a two-tiered system of justice: one where those with money would be released pretrial, and one where those who were too poor to pay bail would remain…
Clandestine changes to the state’s laws are not only unnecessary, they go against ample evidence proving that bail reform has not increased crime throughout the state.
Proposed resolution to amend the state constitution stands to expand preventive detention without protecting the individual rights of the accused or limiting the use of cash bail.
As National Director of Policy, Erin George will lead The Bail Project’s strategy to use its distinctive expertise and data to support policy/advocacy efforts at the local, state, and federal…
Ohioans have a choice to make. Double down on a system of wealth-based pretrial detention that costs state taxpayers $266 million each year and results in stark racial disparities in who…