"Not in it for Justice": How California's Pretrial Detention and Bail System Unfairly Punishes Poor People

ISBN-10
1623134609
ISBN-13
9781623134600
Category
Arrest
Pages
120
Language
English
Published
2017
Author
Human Rights Watch

Description

Key recommendations -- Methodology -- I. Background -- II. Pretrial detention in California -- II. Bail leads to jailing people who are not guilty -- III. Bail and jail result in an unfair justice system -- IV. Bail devastates poor and middle-income defendants and households -- V. Does bail in California serve the legitimate purposes of pretrial detention? -- VI. Profile-based risk assessment -- VII. A better way: increased cite and release and individualized risk assessment -- IX. International human rights law.

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