New York, which had previously approved a bail reform, rolled it back last year. The Michigan bills could face both slim Democratic majorities in the state House and Senate, as well as likely ...
Nowhere was this more evident than his efforts to reform our bail system. In 1964, my father reminded the Senate at a hearing on bail legislation that in America we presume everyone is innocent ...
At the top of the list: her support for the Pretrial Fairness Act, a state law that went into effect in mid-2023 and eliminated cash bail, leading to a drop in the number of people held in jail ...
Having spent four months behind bars for something he didn’t do is just awful,” she said. Alongside Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, Hertzberg introduced a pair of identical bills called The ...
Chris Christie, a grieving mother says New Jersey’s bail reform law freed a violent criminal from jail without bond to shoot her son 22 times. June Rodgers, the mother of Christian Phillip Nolan ...
Nowhere was this more evident than his efforts to reform our bail system. In 1964, my father reminded the Senate at a hearing on bail legislation that in America we presume everyone is innocent ...