Preventive detention offers courts an option for detaining the highest risk individuals pretrial, but what does it look like in the courtroom? This webcast explores legal considerations for preventive detention. The recording is useful for judges, attorneys, policymakers, and advocates exploring...
This report discusses and analyzes the courts dependency on money bail and the impact it has on the jail pretrial population. The results show that the poorest populations are in pretrial detention, not prisons, and the pre-incarceration income of individuals is provided and broken down by...
Detaining The Poor - Prison Policy Initiative 2016.pdf
The policy statement of the Association
Policy Statement on Pretrial Justice - APA.pdf
Attorney Rachael Rollins published a policy
The-Rachael-Rollins-Policy-Memo.pdf
policy foundations for S.B. 91 with technical
Alaska's Criminal Justice Reforms- Comprehensive Law Improves Pretrial, Sentencing, and Corrections Policies - Pew 2016.pdf
This policy serves as an example of the
Policy on Criminal Process -Rapid City, SD 2015.doc
Short articles from Police Chiefs Magazine on deflection and citation in lieu of arrest. #Diversion
Great Ideas Policy Reform - Police Chiefs Magazine 2015.pdf
#Victims
Response to Victims of Crime Model Policy - IACP 2010.pdf
Policies and Procedures Related to the Current
Directors approved an interim policy resolution...interim policy resolution will supplement...existing NACo policy until NACo’s 2019 Annual...Conference , at which point all policy
This report details the number of women who are locked up by various correctional systems and why. It sheds light on how incarcerated women fit into the nation's larger incarceration crisis, and critical insights into drivers of women’s incarceration.
pretrial policies that are based on the type of...policies before split sentencing
Assessing Risk-Based Policies for Pretrial Release & Split Sentencing in LA County Jails - PLoS ONE 2016.pdf
#PolicyStatement #Bail #PretrialServicesAgencies #Defense
Policy on Pretrial Release and Limited Use of Financial Bond - NACDL 2012.pdf
This article argues that the bail determination process is a racially unbalanced system due to lack of resources, information, and uniformity along with the improper considerations of the defendants’ race and financial status. This has led to racial disparities as well as jail overcrowding in...
Give Us Free-Addressing Racial Disparities in Bail Determinations - Legislation and Public Policy 2014.pdf
Harris County pays millions of dollars each year in order to detain those that can’t afford bail, impacting the individual, the family, and the community. This document discusses how improvements can be made to Harry County’s pretrial justice system. #Bail #Implementation
Depenalizing Poverty A Proposal for Improving Harris County Bail Policies - TFDP 2014.pdf
setting policies, using results from a survey
Pretrial Justice in America A Survey of County Pretrial Release Policies Practices and Outcomes - PJI - 2010.pdf
) policy statement urges a new commitment by
Policy Statement on Fair and Effective Pretrial Justice Practices - NLADA 2011.pdf
The purpose of this policy paper is to
Behavior Management of Justice-Involved Individuals- Contemporary Research and State-of-the-Art Policy and Practice - NIC 2015.pdf
This document from the National Association for Public Defense discusses the use of fines, fees, and other costs in the pretrial system that disproportionately impacts poor defendants and defendants of color. The NAPD details the process of money collection in criminal cases and explains why it...
Policy Statement on the Predatory Collection of Costs, Fines, and Fees in America's Criminal Courts - NAPD 2015.pdf
This document contains the resolution of the Conference of Chief Justices advocating for the implementation of evidence-based risk assessments as an alternative to bail in pretrial release. #PolicyStatement #Judicial
Conference of Chief Justices Resolution on Pretrial Justice - 2013.pdf