Government,
Criminal,
Civil Rights
Aug. 14, 2018
Bill botches bail reform
This week, the California State Senate will consider revisions to Senate Bill 10 that will eviscerate the right to pretrial release and betray the broad-based grassroots movement that has propelled money bail to the top of the state and national criminal justice reform agenda.
Chesa Boudin
Executive Director
UC Berkeley School of Law's Criminal Law & Justice Center
This week, the California State Senate will consider revisions to Senate Bill 10 that will eviscerate the right to pretrial release and betray the broad-based grassroots movement that has propelled money bail to the top of the state and national criminal justice reform agenda. Under the guise of replacing money bail with empirical risk assessment tools, the draft legislation would replace the presumption of release into the community with a presumption of jail pending...
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