Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

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Resetting the Default: Detention Should be Hard to Get Resetting the Default: Detention Should be Hard to Get

"What we’ve learned from experience is that when jurisdictions first tackle moving away from secured money bond, without raising the bar on who may be detained and how, the system continues to cause unnecessary detentions. To make detention the exception rather than the rule, it needs to be more like hospital admissions and less like ordering from Domino’s."

Pretrial Justice Institute

August 8, 2018