In response to our nation's overreliance on jails, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation launched the national Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC), a multiyear initiative to safely reduce jail ...
From the press release: More than a year after the first calls to release people from jails and prisons as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the People in Jail and Prison in Spring 2021 report ...
From the report: The Humphrey decision has the potential to dramatically change pretrial justice in California. In San Francisco, the decision shifted how people charged with a new crime were released ...
From the article, published in the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Magazine, Spring 2021 edition: Pretrial reforms have traditionally focused on improving court appearance and public safety. ...
After New York passed reforms to reduce the number of people locked up due to poverty with 55% of voters supporting the move, a rash of articles portraying bail reform as harmful to public safety began ...