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…
The Bail ProjectSeptember 7, 2022
NEWS & STORIES
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…
Jeremy ChersonAugust 29, 2022
People who leave Cook County Jail on individual-recognizance bonds can be connected to affordable housing through a partnership announced today by the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund, The Bail Project…
The Bail ProjectJuly 20, 2022
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…
Jeremy ChersonJuly 15, 2022
