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Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

Social and Economic Issues

Overcriminalization significantly undermines human flourishing and social well-being by harming the family, social networks, and social citizenship. Additionally, it prevents capable men and women from utilizing their creative capacities in the marketplace. This creates vast issues involving relations with family while incarcerated and reintegration into society after release. On the economic side, draconian cash bail systems undermine justice through basing someone's ability to attain pre-trial release upon their wealth, not their actual threat to society.

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California’s historic overhaul of cash bail is now on hold, pending a 2020 referendum

“Bail groups fought the legislation since it was first proposed three years ago, saying it would result in the release of violent offenders to the streets and decimate a $2-billion national industry, including 3,200 bail agents registered in the state. A day after Brown signed the law, a national coalition of bail agency groups launched its referendum drive, raising about $3 million and collecting more than enough signatures to qualify the measure in just two months.“

LA Times

January 16, 2019

Bail ReformPhillip ReevesJanuary 16, 2019LA Times, CaliforniaComment

California Gov. Jerry Brown signs overhaul of bail system, saying now 'rich and poor alike are treated fairly'

"The legislation virtually eliminates the payment of money as a condition of release. Under last-minute changes to the proposal, judges will have greater power to decide which people are a danger to the community and should be held without possibility of release in a practice known as 'preventive detention'."

LA Times

August 28, 2018

Bail ReformAnthony BradleyAugust 29, 2018LA Times, California