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04/07/2022

Updated Bail Study Proves The "Languishing Argument" Is Just Not True
Dr. David Krahl updates prior studies on bail in Florida. He spoke about this on a podcast just last week. The show notes are as follows:

While bail as a pretrial release mechanism has been around since our nation’s beginning and is protected in the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, its continued use in the present day has been questioned by critics of the historically-based pretrial release mechanism.

In a recent study, David Krahl, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at The University of Tampa, found that in terms of sheer cost alone, the use of surety bonding costs Florida taxpayers absolutely nothing in terms of taxpayer dollars, while the use of other forms of unsecured pretrial release has cost more than $95 million dollars over a three-year period.

Krahl’s research, using a random sample of over 9,300 detainees from jails across Florida during a one-year period, showed that 56 percent of defendants who had been arrested spent between one and three days in jail, while two-thirds of the sample spent between one and seven days in jail before they were released. The data also showed that defendants in unsecured pretrial release status spent statistically significant longer time in pretrial detention than did defendants released on a surety bond.

“The notion that large numbers of defendants are languishing away in jail simply because they cannot afford the cost of a surety bond to secure their pretrial release is sheer fiction,” Krahl said. The average stay in jail prior to pretrial release was two days for the overall sample. The most predictive factor in determining number of days of pretrial detention was the number of charges filed against a defendant. No other factor was a predictive factor.

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Listen To Podcast - The Bail Post Episode No. 8- Are People Languishing in Jail Because of Surety Bail?
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03/31/2022

While bail as a pretrial release mechanism has been around since our nation’s beginning and is protected in the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, its continued use in the present day has been questioned by critics of the historically-based pre...

02/17/2022

Another weekend, another raft of horrors: How many will it take for the Democrats who run the Legislature to pass the modest reforms Mayor Eric Adams requests?

08/08/2021

I originally posted this when the Pandemic began, but now that Florida leads the nation with the highest number of Covid-19 cases and the new Variant, I felt it was appropriate to re-post.
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06/14/2021

Crime Victims United recently posted a video explaining the dangers of HR 1249, No Money Bail Act.



See link to article and video: https://www.rochesurety.com/hr-1249-no-money-bail-act-is-dangerous/





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