How public pressure, inhumane jail conditions, and informal agreements reshaped the Cuyahoga County bail system.
Make a pretrial release risk assessment tool available to all judges statewide.
Require counties with more than one municipal court to use standard bond amounts based on a defendant’s charges when a judge is not available to make a release decision.Create more alternatives to pretrial detention and collect better data on bail and pretrial detention.
. The report, which included Cuyahoga County cases, also looked at racial disparities in the current bail system. An economist hired by the civil rights organization estimated the state could save as much as $264 million a year by releasing people charged with misdemeanors and most felonies instead of keeping them detained.
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