With this decision, Illinois becomes the first state in the nation to completely eliminate the devastating use of cash bail, upholding the presumption of innocence.
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.
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…
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…
"Nearly half a million people who are presumed innocent are sitting in jail cells across America," Glover said. "Most of them are there for one reason only: they cannot afford…