Report Pandemic Policymaking and Changed Outcomes in Criminal Courts By Heather Harris Apr 12, 2023 Three main strategies included modifying pretrial release to reduce jail populations, permitting remote hearings, and extending case timelines.
Report Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Arrests in California By Deepak Premkumar, Thomas Sloan, Magnus Lofstrom, Joseph Hayes Feb 7, 2023 Feb 10, 2023 ... In addition, some inmates were released early from jails and prisons. ... of not seeking cash bail as a condition of pre-trial release.
blog post New Bail Ruling Could Affect Tens of Thousands of Californians By Vicki Hsieh, Heather Harris Apr 13, 2021 Apr 13, 2021 ... California lacks comprehensive data on pretrial release, detention, and bail, so we can only loosely estimate how many people the ruling would ...
Fact Sheet California’s County Jails By Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin Feb 8, 2021 California's County Jails · County jail populations dropped dramatically after Proposition 47 and during the pandemic · Capacity-constrained releases have fallen ...
blog post Pretrial Reform in California By Heather Harris, Magnus Lofstrom Aug 26, 2020 Aug 26, 2020 ... SB 10 abolishes money bail and replaces it with a new process of determining pretrial release. The debate over SB 10 has been fierce, ...
Report Reforming Pretrial Justice in California By Heather Harris, Magnus Lofstrom Aug 19, 2020 In 2018, the governor signed Senate Bill 10 (SB 10) to eliminate money bail and require the use of risk assessment tools when making pretrial release ...
press release Prop 47 Has Reduced Racial Disparities in Arrests and Bookings in California, but Serious Inequities Remain Jun 23, 2020 Jun 23, 2020 ... These are among the key findings of a report released today by the ... Overall, California's use of pretrial detention has declined since ...
Report Proposition 47’s Impact on Racial Disparity in Criminal Justice Outcomes By Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin, Steven Raphael Jun 23, 2020 Full Report Technical Appendix Press Release→. This research was supported with ... As a result, California's use of pretrial detention has declined.
blog post California’s Jail Population Has Plummeted during COVID-19 By Joseph Hayes, Heather Harris May 8, 2020 May 8, 2020 ... All counties have released more people from jail than they've admitted ... cash bail to a risk-based system of determining pretrial release.
Report Pretrial Risk Assessment in California By Heather Harris, Justin Goss, Alexandria Gumbs Dec 9, 2019 By carefully tracking the risk predictions made by their assessment tool-as well as how these predictions are translated into release or detention decisions- ...