When it comes to criminal justice, what was radical a half century ago is apparently still radical today. In 1961, my organization, the Vera Institute of Justice, got its start with the Manhattan Bail Project, by testing and proving that most people accused of committing a crime can be safely released from custody and relied on to appear in court—without having to post money bail or to stay in jail until trial. bail bonds anaheim
With strong bipartisan support for sentencing reform and re-entry supports for people leaving prison—making strange bedfellows of the likes of the Koch brothers and the ACLU—this is perhaps our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to effect comprehensive and enduring criminal justice reform. But to be successful, we need start at the beginning, at incarceration’s front door—our local jails. los angeles california county, san bernardino county bail bonds Although jails serve an important function in local justice systems—to hold people deemed too dangerous to release pending trial or at high risk of flight—this is no longer primarily what jails do or whom they hold. Three out of five people in jail have not been convicted of any crime and are simply too poor to post even low bail to get out while their cases are being processed. Nearly 75% of both pretrial detainees and sentenced offenders are in jail for nonviolent traffic, property, drug, or public order offenses. los angeles ca inmate search
And underlying the behavior that lands many people in jail in the first place, there is often a history of substance abuse, mental illness, poverty, failure in school, and homelessness. Moreover, jailing practices have had a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Nationally, African Americans are jailed at almost four times the rate of white Americans. bail bonds las vegas nv, dog house bail bonds
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