Jacquelyn Jahn, PhD, an assistant professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in an Oct. 27 Daily Journal (Vineland, New Jersey) story about the effects of New Jersey’s bail reform ...
Washington, DC, the immediate target of Trump’s ire, removed cash bail in most cases in 1992. Democratic-controlled states like New York, California and Illinois have passed bail reform laws in recent ...
New Jersey was hailed as a model for criminal justice reform nationally when state lawmakers eliminated cash bail more than a decade ago.
In 2015, a pregnant and homeless 30-year-old woman spent 135 days in an Illinois jail because she stole two plums and three candy bars from a Save A Lot store. That same year, a 41-year-old Illinois ...
The bail reform movement has succeeded in changing bail systems in several states over the past decade. New Mexico largely eliminated cash bail in 2016, as did New Jersey in 2017 and Alaska in 2018.