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Bookmark or Share- A (not so) brief guide to New York’s bail reform evolution| May 5, 2023. Since 2018, the laws concerning New York state’s bail and discovery procedures have been modified four times – most recently in this year’s state budget. The specific changes to the laws have been difficult for people unfamiliar with the legal system to understand.
- 2023 Criminal Justice Reform in New York StateHans Pennink/AP. End Mass Incarceration. Cutting Jail & Prison Populations. Social & Economic Harm. Earlier this summer, New York legislators closed the books on an eventful session for criminal justice policy. Policymakers revised the state’s bail reform law for the third time in four years.
- The Facts on Bail Reform in New York: How Pretrial Detention and ...New York’s bail reform law works by first separating criminal charges into qualifying and non-qualifying offenses. Most violent crimes, such as aggravated assault, are qualifying offenses.
- Timeline: How New York's bail reform law came to be - CBS NewsThe New York State Legislature passes bail reform laws eliminating money bail and pre-trial detention in nearly all misdemeanor and non-violent felony cases. It made supervised release more...
- New York’s Bail Laws, Reconsidered: 5 Things to KnowPublished March 29, 2022 Updated March 30, 2022. The most divisive issue in Albany is hardly a new one. In 2019, New York changed its laws so that fewer people arrested would languish in jail...
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