The Bail Trap

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Posted in Community life, County business, Courts, Ethics
Posted by Nancy Oates on August 6, 2018

http://chapelhillwatch.com/2018/08/06/the-bail-trap/

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  1. CitizenWill

     /  August 19, 2018

    Thank you for airing this issue Nancy.

    While Orange County and its courts have made some good strides in improving our justice system we still have a long way to go.

    For instance, touting the flow of Federal dollars coming from housing out-of-county prisoners as a justification for building a new jail.

    Jailing as a profit-center is an anathema to future progress.

    We need to invest in “right-sized” distributed facilities that align with our citizens’ values, meet our future needs and accept that there is a taxpayer borne cost to doing that properly.

  2. Plurimus

     /  August 20, 2018

    People seem hung up on the bail issue. My sense is that generally speaking bal is not imposed without good reason. On the other had the privatization of probation seems much more onerous to me:

    https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/02/20/set-fail/impact-offender-funded-private-probation-poor