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Mistakenly Jailed Pretrial, Mother Lost Her Job and Kids

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|Date: May 11, 2019
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Mistakenly Jailed Pretrial, Mother Lost Her Job and Kids

By Andrea Woods and Jocelyn Rosnick On April 11, Hamilton County police in Cincinnati, Ohio arrested Ashl ...

By Andrea Woods and Jocelyn Rosnick On April 11, Hamilton County police in Cincinnati, Ohio arrested Ashley Foster in a Target parking lot on charges of trafficking heroin. Foster was with her two you ...

May 11, 2019
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ACLU Sues to End Cash Bail

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|Date: April 20, 2019
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ACLU Sues to End Cash Bail

By Twyla Carter and Philip Mayor Imagine being poor and being arrested by the police in Detroit. You are ...

By Twyla Carter and Philip Mayor Imagine being poor and being arrested by the police in Detroit. You are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but with no money, you will remain in jail for up ...

April 20, 2019
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San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi Dead at Age 59

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 23, 2019
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San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi Dead at Age 59

SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi, the only elected public defender in the state, died last night as he was ...

SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi, the only elected public defender in the state, died last night as he was traveling. According to KGO-TV, he died of a heart attack. No official details have been rele ...

February 23, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Conservative Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 17, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Conservative Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Since July, the American Conservative has an ongoing series of currently 12 articles in collaboration wit ...

Since July, the American Conservative has an ongoing series of currently 12 articles in collaboration with the R Street Institute exploring conservative approaches to criminal justice reform. Here is ...

December 17, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: There’s a Wave of Progressive Prosecutors, but We’ve Been Left Behind

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 16, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: There’s a Wave of Progressive Prosecutors, but We’ve Been Left Behind

Despite a closer than expected election back in June in Yolo County, the hope for progressive reform rema ...

Despite a closer than expected election back in June in Yolo County, the hope for progressive reform remains elusive. This past week there was an op-ed in the New York Times, “There’s a Wave of New P ...

December 16, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 11, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the ...

More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, laid the foundation for criminal justice reform efforts. However, I th ...

November 11, 2018
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Late Night Craziness in Legislature – Legislature Passes Several Police Reform Measures at 11th Hour

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|Date: September 01, 2018
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Late Night Craziness in Legislature – Legislature Passes Several Police Reform Measures at 11th Hour

Bills to Open Up Police Officer Records, and Require Release of Body-Cam Footage Pass, Signaling New Era ...

Bills to Open Up Police Officer Records, and Require Release of Body-Cam Footage Pass, Signaling New Era of Transparency and Accountability By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO ...

September 01, 2018
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Governor Brown Signs Landmark Legislation to End Cash Bail, Amid Cries that It Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 29, 2018
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Governor Brown Signs Landmark Legislation to End Cash Bail, Amid Cries that It Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 10 into law on Tuesday – meaning that next October 2019 cash bail will end ...

Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 10 into law on Tuesday – meaning that next October 2019 cash bail will end in California. The law will establish a new system for determining a defendant’s custody stat ...

August 29, 2018
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Commentary: SB 10 Bail Reform Moves the Ball Forward, but Is Not Perfect

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 24, 2018
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Commentary: SB 10 Bail Reform Moves the Ball Forward, but Is Not Perfect

Most reformers agree on the basic problem of bail – we reside in a system that is supposed to believe an ...

Most reformers agree on the basic problem of bail – we reside in a system that is supposed to believe an individual to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. However, we have to balance t ...

August 24, 2018
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ACLU Flips to Opposition of Bail Reform Bill but SB 10 Passes Assembly

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|Date: August 21, 2018
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ACLU Flips to Opposition of Bail Reform Bill but SB 10 Passes Assembly

The ACLU of California announced early on Monday that they had taken a step further than last week and co ...

The ACLU of California announced early on Monday that they had taken a step further than last week and come out in opposition to SB 10, the California Bail Reform ACT. In a joint statement, the three ...

August 21, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Does Bail Reform Go Far Enough?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 19, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Does Bail Reform Go Far Enough?

A lot of people don’t really understand bail reform. The purpose of bail reform is not to eliminate pre- ...

A lot of people don’t really understand bail reform. The purpose of bail reform is not to eliminate pre-trial custody. But rather it is to change the way that pre-trial custody is determined, from c ...

August 19, 2018
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ACLU Pulls Support as Bail Reform Legislation Watered Down

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|Date: August 17, 2018
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ACLU Pulls Support as Bail Reform Legislation Watered Down

ACLU of California Statement on Changes to Bail Reform Legislation (From Press Release) – Today, Senator ...

ACLU of California Statement on Changes to Bail Reform Legislation (From Press Release) – Today, Senator Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) unveiled amendments to bail reform legislation, Senate Bill 10, he intro ...

August 17, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: State of the DA’s Race and Bail Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 21, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: State of the DA’s Race and Bail Reform

Yesterday I posted a comment in response to the question “what is wrong with jury trials?” The unfortuna ...

Yesterday I posted a comment in response to the question “what is wrong with jury trials?” The unfortunate thing is that some seem to have missed the boat on this issue. The problem is not jury tria ...

May 21, 2018
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Meet the “Poster Children” for Bail Reform

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|Date: April 24, 2018
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Meet the “Poster Children” for Bail Reform

Bail Reform Advocates Unveil Website Highlighting Repeated Abuses by Agents of California’s Out-of-Contro ...

Bail Reform Advocates Unveil Website Highlighting Repeated Abuses by Agents of California’s Out-of-Control Money Bail Industry (From Press Release) - Bail Reform California, a coalition of organizatio ...

April 24, 2018
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Guest Commentary: California’s District Attorneys Must Work to End Money Bail

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|Date: April 12, 2018
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Guest Commentary: California’s District Attorneys Must Work to End Money Bail

By Jeff Adachi While the movement to reform California’s unconstitutional money bail system gains momentu ...

By Jeff Adachi While the movement to reform California’s unconstitutional money bail system gains momentum, it met resistance earlier this month from a familiar opponent. In an extraordinary court fil ...

April 12, 2018
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Federal Judge Orders Man Released After SF Courts Repeatedly Fail to Follow Bail Law

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|Date: March 16, 2018
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Federal Judge Orders Man Released After SF Courts Repeatedly Fail to Follow Bail Law

(From Press Release) - A federal judge this week ordered authorities to immediately free a homeless man f ...

(From Press Release) - A federal judge this week ordered authorities to immediately free a homeless man from jail after he was repeatedly denied a constitutionally adequate bail hearing in San Francis ...

March 16, 2018
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AG Will Not Appeal Humphrey Bail Decision

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 21, 2018
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AG Will Not Appeal Humphrey Bail Decision

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Tuesday that his office will not appeal a state a ...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Tuesday that his office will not appeal a state appellate court’s ruling in In re Kenneth Humphrey. Mr. Humphrey has been incarcerated since May ...

February 21, 2018
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Money Bail Survives in California because of the Myths Perpetuated by the For-Profit Bail Industry

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|Date: February 18, 2018
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Money Bail Survives in California because of the Myths Perpetuated by the For-Profit Bail Industry

By the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Myth # 1: Most people who are in jail are there because the ...

By the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Myth # 1: Most people who are in jail are there because they have been convicted of a crime. In California, 66 percent of people in county jails have not ...

February 18, 2018
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He Stole $5 and Cologne. Bail was Set at $350,000

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|Date: February 07, 2018
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He Stole $5 and Cologne. Bail was Set at $350,000

By Jeff Adachi and Chesa Boudin The case of a San Francisco senior citizen accused of stealing $5 and a b ...

By Jeff Adachi and Chesa Boudin The case of a San Francisco senior citizen accused of stealing $5 and a bottle of cologne from his neighbor reveals the obvious injustice of California’s bail system, a ...

February 07, 2018
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Court’s Game-Changing Decision on Bail Based on SF Man’s Case

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 27, 2018
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Court’s Game-Changing Decision on Bail Based on SF Man’s Case

(From Press Release) - A case involving a San Francisco retiree jailed for allegedly stealing cologne has ...

(From Press Release) - A case involving a San Francisco retiree jailed for allegedly stealing cologne has sparked a legal decision that promises to transform California’s approach to bail, San Francis ...

January 27, 2018
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