> Kentucky and New Jersey, for instance, have shifted from bail toward personalized risk assessments
The cost of the New Jersey implementation, has been offensively expensive, to some. Lawyers charge by the hour. The new bail system requires additional bail screening/hearings. The inevitable delays (daily) have run up lawyer bills. It's assumed that this will improve with better processes and routines. Inefficiency, incompetence and incompatible systems being shoved together have led to a strange brew that costs 1-3 million (per court) annually there.
The ideological question is whether the state or private industry should profit from incarceration of suspects and what bar should be set for temporary release pending a court date.
Right now, the bar (bail) is financial and a judge has to be arbitrary with regard to assessed risk at arraignment. Working within the known bail system, in california, some judges will assign amounts knowing what bail bonds will cost. This has led to a strange inflation of bond costing and a glut of bounty hunters.
Cost overruns might be high right now, but I prefer that to a system that disproportionately forces the poor and people of color to be removed from society for (often) years at a time awaiting trial, whether or not they or guilty.
The cost of the New Jersey implementation, has been offensively expensive, to some. Lawyers charge by the hour. The new bail system requires additional bail screening/hearings. The inevitable delays (daily) have run up lawyer bills. It's assumed that this will improve with better processes and routines. Inefficiency, incompetence and incompatible systems being shoved together have led to a strange brew that costs 1-3 million (per court) annually there.
The ideological question is whether the state or private industry should profit from incarceration of suspects and what bar should be set for temporary release pending a court date.
Right now, the bar (bail) is financial and a judge has to be arbitrary with regard to assessed risk at arraignment. Working within the known bail system, in california, some judges will assign amounts knowing what bail bonds will cost. This has led to a strange inflation of bond costing and a glut of bounty hunters.