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How can we stop the overpopulation at CCC? Task Force releases their recommendations
Shreveport Times | The Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFollowing a year-long process members of the Caddo Parish Criminal Justice Task Force stood in front...
Researchers: New Mexico's pretrial detention plans wouldn't reduce crime
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoALBUQUERQUE - Legislative proposals intended to make it easier to keep certain criminal defendants...
Racial disparity persists at Oklahoma County jail despite overall population decrease
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe population of Oklahoma County's jail is significantly lower than it was eight years ago, but...
Study: Federal magistrates, prosecutors misunderstand bail law, jailing people who should go free
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Reagan-era law, passed by Congress nearly four decades ago to change the federal bail system in...
Kankakee County judge finds that elimination of cash bail provision in SAFE-T Act is...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Kankakee County judge has found that a key provision of Illinois’ sweeping criminal justice law...
A new scientific method for bail reform
ABC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCities and towns around the country are turning to a new scientifically based algorithm that will work to help judges make decisions during pretrial...
A Cop Jailed Her for 2 Years on Fake Charges. Will She Ever Get Justice?
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 9 months agoHamdi Mohamud | Institute for Justice A Minnesota woman has resuscitated her effort to sue a police...
Criminal justice panel says California should pay restitution to victims, ban some traffic stops
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBryant Mangum at his home in August 2021 in Los Angeles. Magnum says he's been racially profiled and...
Release of man charged with shooting Ralph Yarl prompts calls for bail reform. Here’s why
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter Andrew Lester — the 84-year-old white man charged with shooting a Black teenager twice on his...
Cash bail is big business in Chatham County, but a Deep Center report shows the costs to taxpayers
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA report released by Deep Center in partnership with the Vera Institute for Justice and the Southern...
