#Pretrial

In June, Trump vowed to crush protesters. Federal prosecutors have fulfilled this wish. Out of hundreds of people arrested, we found more than 50 are locked up until trial. Shamar
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The system of #CashBail is a predatory financial institution. Cash bail is nothing more than when a person pays money to leave jail before their trial. This money is supposed
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Today in Baltimore City bail reviews: Judge Sampson is presiding. One of the defense attorneys asks if a Spanish interpreter is available. Judge Sampson says no and that the matter
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Good morning. While we’re waiting for bail reviews to start: if you’re interested in volunteering w/us, we have a need for observers on weekday mornings, and we can also use
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ugh okay, my mail-in ballot just arrived and it's time for a thread on CA's prop 25: the Replace Cash Bail with Risk Assessments Referendum. 1/x a "yes" vote
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Abolitionists have a term called "non-reformist reforms" (which I personally believe to be as oxymoronic as it sounds in most cases) which refers to criminal legal reforms that are meant
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California Voters: NO on #Prop25!!! Abolishing cash bail this way would replace it with risk assessment tools (which rely on algorithms & data has shown us that algorithms are inherently
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Thread w/r/t the joint motion to review pretrial detainees for release from which AG Fitch withdrew her support. 1/https://twitter.com/JxnFreePress/status/1254515640163016705 Chief Justice Randolph denied the motion for local judges to
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Since last August, @MOHAVVKJOHNSON has been incarcerated in his home on electronic monitoring after being arrested at a #BlackLivesMatter protest.His nightmarish but all too common experience on electronic monitoring
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Today in Baltimore City bail reviews: Judge Cox is presiding. He says there’s been “some emergency” that has taken some jail personnel from one facility to another, and this means
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THREAD It's been a week since the SJC #COVID19 decision.IT'S GOING TERRIBLYFAR too many people are still locked up.MCI-F's infection rate is higher than Rikers.Cases are spiking. People will die.Here's
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On the background of the practice of #Rotation in #Egypt or التدوير. I asked myself, what if we eliminated the whole public prosecution sector from the justice equation? In this
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At a hearing for Capitol defendant Michael Foy (charged with attacking cops with a hockey stick) Judge Tanya Chutkan expressed concern about what she’s heard about the conditions of confinement
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Today’s Baltimore City Circuit Court bail review/habeas docket thread. Judge Sampson is presiding. CASE 1: a young man who was arrested for an alleged VOP. He’s being held on the
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Today in Baltimore bail reviews.All the circuit court judges are in a judge's meeting, so they brought in retired judge Brooke Murdock. Before we get to the cases a few
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My dissertation in three words:Fuck drug courts. https://twitter.com/jessicahuseman/status/1319462298621267970 My dissertation in several more words: drug courts are part of the apparatus of criminalization that construes ppl who use drugs
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