Organizations Videos Law Review Publications News Articles Public Opinion and Messaging Reports and Policies Other Resources
Organizations
Videos
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Bail Reform, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (October 2022)
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Bail, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (June 2015)
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How Bail Works, Vera Institute for Justice
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What if We Ended the Injustice of Bail, TEDTalk, Robin Steinberg (April 2018)
Law Review Publications
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Do Attorneys Really Matter?: The Empirical and Legal Case for the Right of Counsel at Bail, Colbert, Pasternostor, Bushway, 23 Cardozo L.R. 101 (2002)
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Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention, Heaton, P., Mayson, S., Stevenson, M., 69 Stanford Law Rev. 711 (2017)
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Towards an Optimal Bail System, C.S. Yang, 92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1450 (2017)
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Undoing the Bail Myth: Pretrial Reforms to End Mass Incarceration, Rahman, 46 Fordham Urban L.J. 845 (2019)
News Articles
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Bail Reformers Aren't Waiting for Bail Reform, Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project, Aug. 23, 2016
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The Failure to Appear Fallacy, Ethan Corey and Puck Lo, The Appeal, Jan. 9, 2019
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The Future Of Pretrial Justice Is Not Money Bail Or System Supervision - It’s Freedom And Community, Raj Jayadev, SV De-Bug, April 4, 2019
Public Opinion and Messaging
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Responding to "Repeat Offender" Narratives: Messaging Guide, The Bail Project (2026)
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Affordability Politics & Cash Bail: Messaging Guide, The Bail Project (2026)
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Americans Back Limiting Pretrial Detention, Expanding Release, Pew Charitable Trust (2018)
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Public Opinion Poll on Jails and Local Criminal Justice Systems, RTI International and Zogby Analytics (2018)
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Media Toolkit for Pretrial Justice Partners, PJI (2017)
Reports and Policies
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Bail Reform and Public Safety, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law (Auggust 2024)
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Freedom Denied: How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis, University of Chicago Law School Federal Criminal Justice Clinic (2022)
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Justice Denied: The Harmful and Lasting Effects of Pretrial Detention, Vera (2019)
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A New Vision for Pretrial Justice, ACLU (2019)
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Does Cash Bail Deter Misconduct?, Ouss and Stevenson (2019)
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Effects of Pretrial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges, Dobbie, W., Goldin, J., Yang, C., American Econ. Rev. (2018)
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Open Roads and Overflowing Jails: Addressing high rates of rural pretrial incarceration, Right on Crime and Texas Public Policy Foundation (2018)
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Not In It For Justice: How California's Pretrial Detention and Bail System Unfairly Punishes Poor People, Human Rights Watch (April 2017)
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Out of Sight: The Growth of Jails in Rural America, Vera Institute of Justice (June 2017)
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Moving Beyond Money: A Primer on Bail Reform, Criminal Justice Policy Program (2016)
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The Hidden Costs of Pretrial Detention, Lowenkamp, VanNostrand, Holsinger (2013)
Other Resources
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Incarceration Trends, An interactive state and county-level map detailing incarceration data, Vera Institute for Justice
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Q&A: Pretrial Incarceration, Bail, Human Rights Watch (2018)
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Where Pretrial Improvements are Happening, Pretrial Justice Institute (2019)
