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PBUS
Call for Nominations for the 2018 Board of Directors.
Nominations for the 2018 Board of Directors must be sent to Armando Roche, MCBA, no later that Friday, January 26, 2018 in order to be listed on the pre-printed ballots. The email address for submitting is monica@rochesurety.com.
Ideastream
The head of the Ohio Bail Agents Association, Charles Miller, is responding to a report calling the state's cash bail system "unfair" to poor defendants.
The report, released by the conservative Buckeye Institute, said requiring defendants to put up cash in order to gain pretrial release discriminates against the poor while letting those with money get out. But Charles Miller, president of the association, disagrees.
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WOSU-FM
While a new report calls Ohio';s cash bail system "unfair" to poor defendants, both the Ohio Bail Agents Association and the ACLU of Ohio disagree with a plan to reform the system — for very different reasons. State Reps. Jonathan Dever and Tim Ginther introduced a bill in the Ohio House, HB 439, that would reform the jail system by basing bail on a person's risk to society rather than how much money they have.
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Courthouse News
At a recent hearing, a federal judge lit into a lawyer challenging San Francisco's bail scheme over evidence she said would be inadmissible in a federal court.
Phil Telfeyan with Equal Justice Under Law, arguing the case on behalf of a proposed class of arrestees who cannot afford bail but are otherwise eligible for pretrial release in San Francisco, argued other jurisdictions have effectively used other non-monetary methods to ensure arrestees appear in court.
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Albuquerque Journal
A U.S. district judge has thrown out the federal class-action lawsuit against the New Mexico state Supreme Court and its judges over rules affecting pretrial detention, finding that the claims raised are without merit.
"Criminal defendants have never been guaranteed the option of monetary bail under New Mexico law in existence before or after the 2017 rules," U.S. District Judge Robert A. Junell wrote in his 42-page ruling.
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NJ.com
Homicides in Newark, New Jersey, have hit a historic low this year when compared to the last decade but non-fatal shootings have increased, city officials announced.
There were 70 homicides to date this year — about a 28 percent drop from the year prior, Mayor Ras Baraka said during a press conference on the city's year-end crime statistics at the police-fire communications center. That's 26 fewer murders than last year's 96, officials said.
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The Fresno Bee
California, which had led the nation in cracking down on crime in the 1980s and 1990s by locking up tens of thousands of felons, has dramatically reversed course in the last half-decade. For example:
Responding to pressure from federal courts to reduce prison overcrowding, Gov. Jerry Brown and the legislature enacted "realignment," which diverted low-level felons into local jails and probation, thus dropping prison populations by about one-third via attrition.
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By Michelle R. Matisons
 The U.S. prison industry currently holds 2.2 million people behind bars. Of that number, an estimated 700,000 people sit in jails awaiting trials. They are locked up because they are unable to post bail. As more and more Americans get ensnared in some aspect of mass incarceration, different projects seek to rectify these hardships. A popular new app, Appolition, aims to direct users' spare change toward raising bail.
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The Journal Record
There is a growing conversation happening in Oklahoma centered around criminal justice reform efforts.
Many options are being discussed by community leaders, state legislators and the general public surrounding pre-trial release for defendants, specifically own recognizance bonds.
Through OR bonds, criminal suspects are arrested, booked and granted release on their "own recognizance" after promising, in writing, that they will appear in court and for any upcoming proceedings.
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Tennessean
Under pressure from a high-profile national advocacy group, city leaders may change the bail system that keeps some criminal defendants in jail if they can't afford to pay their way out.
Officials want to expand programs that allow defendants to get out of jail cash-free and are also considering reforms to the way cash bail is set — reforms that theoretically would lead to fewer poor people waiting for a trial behind bars.
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New York Law Journal
In a sentencing note, U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein justified his October sentencing of three convicted defendants to lengthy prison terms, but not before lamenting the unavailability of diversion or other programs for violent offenders that he said were "trapped in a gang culture, and condemned to a life of poverty and probable crime."
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