The New York government could pass its own bill as soon as this spring.Advocates for criminal justice reform say that ending the bail system would help curb mass incarceration. Abolishing bail, ...
Supporters of bail reform argue that monetary bail negatively impacts lower-income defendants and disproportionately impacts people of color. Opponents of bail reform argue that cashless bail poses a ...
NEW YORK — In 2017, around 33,000 criminal defendants in New York couldn’t post bail at their initial hearing. They went straight from a courthouse to jail simply because they were poor. The New York ...