Showing posts with label pretrial detention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pretrial detention. Show all posts
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Abstract 'sweet spot' imagined on bail reform probably doesn't exist

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Your correspondent has mostly stayed out of bail debates this year at the Texas Legislature for two simple reasons: 1) There are many opport...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Harris County DA: Judges cannot consider health issues as part of pretrial release decisions.

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We're still waiting for the Supreme Court of Texas to rule whether Governor Greg Abbott's executive order on COVID-related jail rele...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Litigation challenges Abbott's executive order on COVID-19 jail releases

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The Texas Fair Defense Project, ACLU of Texas, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued Governor Greg Abbott over his execu...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2020

'The Peter Parker Problem': With great (judicial) power comes great responsibility

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What does that Spiderman story have to do with judges setting bail? From a psychological perspective, as it turns out, everything! Since...
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Monday, January 06, 2020

Conflating federal/state systems to demagogue vs. bail reform

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The Dallas Morning News editorial board issued one of the most ignorant, counter-productive commentaries on bail reform I've seen in a ...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

Podcast: Texas bail reform litigation, demagoguery on crime in Houston, and Grits' contribution to new TDCJ Hep C litigation

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Here's the September 2019 episode of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, co-hosted by Scott Henson and Amanda Marzullo. Sp...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

A first-cut reaction to Harris-County DA Kim Ogg's reasons for opposing bail reform

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Why does Harris County DA Kim Ogg oppose the proposed bail-reform settlement in Houston? Let's dig into this bit by bit, starting with t...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Harris County probation department making big improvements, but it's still probation

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As part of reforms implemented with its MacArthur grant, Harris County consolidated all of its state jail cases into one district-court dock...
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Monday, August 05, 2019

Harris County bail-reform settlement a landmark defeat of Texas bail-industry lobby

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There once was a county named Harris  Whose bail system left them embarrassed Then judges were sued And elections did lose So now l...
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Friday, May 10, 2019

Bail-bondsmen amendments made 'reform' bill actively harmful

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Texas' bail-reform legislation remains a mess and Grits has said for weeks the bills not ready for prime time during the 86th Texas Leg...
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Monday, April 08, 2019

Texas bail-reform legislation not ready for prime time

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Competing bail-reform bills are up in the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee today, but in this writer's view, none of them is...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Bail-reform blues: Can't please all parties when reforming pretrial-detention process

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Governor Greg Abbott's endorsement of bail reform last year appeared to give the issue fresh life. But Abbott has now  backed a bail-ref...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

TX bail-reform momentum growing amidst supportive press

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Source: SA Express-News In San Antonio, bail companies openly advertise to defendants that they should reject "personal bonds"...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Guerra-Thompson: Harris County bail compromise still discriminates against poor people

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Sandra Guerra Thompson, Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at the University of Houston Law School, is unimpressed with the propose...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Bail litigation updates across Texas, and other stories

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A bit of personal news: After Just Liberty's Executive Director, Shakira Pumphrey, left to join the new Texas House Speaker's staff ...
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Friday, January 11, 2019

In praise of pretrial-detention algorithms, the 'failure to appear fallacy,' Louisiana ↓ technical revocations, and other stories

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Several national items merit Grits readers' attention here during the calm before the 86th Texas Legislature storm. Debtors-prison ref...
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Monday, October 29, 2018

A primer on the current status of bail-reform litigation in Texas

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Are you confused about the status bail reform in Texas? First Judge Lee Rosenthal issued a 193-page injunction in Harris County declarin...
Monday, September 10, 2018

TX Judicial Council recommendations on bail reform

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Check out the Texas Judicial Council's legislative recommendations related to pretrial detention/bail reform, and the description of th...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

What the judges want: Judicial Council recommendations to the #txlege

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The Texas Judicial Council last month issued its recommendations to the Legislature on criminal-justice reform heading into the 86th sessio...
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Monday, July 09, 2018

Critique of bail reform and public safety ignores best evidence

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An odd editorial last month on the TribTalk site by Stacie Rumenap, identified as President of Stop Child Predators, titled, " Bail ref...
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