Category: Bail
The Bail Industry Tries, Again, To Overturn Bail Reform in Georgia
This past Monday, a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee heard HB 340, a…
READ MORE >Bail Reform in Atlanta Has Been Successful: Don’t be Duped by Misleading Court Data, Especially in the Wake of the Cyberattack
Nearly 750,000 people are detained in jails across the country every day because of an…
READ MORE >Two Rulings, One Conclusion: ‘User-Pay’ Court Funding Unconstitutional
In two landmark decisions this month, two federal judges declared that there is a clear…
READ MORE >Legislation Would Further Exacerbate Wealth-Based Detention in Georgia
Yesterday, following a three hour hearing on SB 452, the legislation passed out of the…
READ MORE >Bail Reform Comes to Atlanta
Money bail is American exceptionalism of the wrong variety. The United States is one of…
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