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The justices issued their order Saturday evening, hours before the new law was slated to take effect, to maintain the status quo across the state.
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As a state task force works to ready justice system, amendments could be forthcoming.
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Cash bail has largely disappeared in St. Louis. Instead, circuit court judges are increasingly denying bond altogether, a new report from the Freedom Community Center found.
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St. Louis attorneys and activists say judges are often denying defendants bond entirely after the Missouri Supreme Court in 2019 made it harder for courts to detain people on cash bail pretrial. “It’s a classic case of the system recalibrating and in some ways achieving many of the same results,” said Blake Strode, executive director of civil rights law firm ArchCity Defenders.
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Robin Steinberg, CEO of the Bail Project, and Mike Milton, founder and CEO of the Freedom Community Center, discuss the work done by the Bail Project in its three years here — and explain why its St. Louis office is closing.
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Police, prosecutors, defenders and judges prepare to enact more than 700 pages of legislation.
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Advocates are celebrating a new law that will end wealth-based pretrial detention in Illinois. With Gov. J.B. Pritzker's signature yesterday, the state becomes the first in the country to eliminate cash bail.
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Missouri Chief Justice Zel Fischer in January announced coming changes to the state’s pretrial rules, which govern bail, detention and other practices…
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ArchCity Defenders uses the cash bail system, the death of Michael Brown Jr. and the movements that grew out of the Ferguson unrest to shine light on…
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Public Safety Director, St. Louis Resident And Co-Founder Of Ben & Jerry's Talk Workhouse, Cash BailOn Tuesday a federal judge ruled that St. Louis jails cannot hold inmates simply because they cannot make bail. That decision came just one day before a…