| Updated: March 3, 2021, 5:36 p.m.
As the clock ticks down the final hours of the Utah legislative session, a group of state prosecutors and public defenders came together Monday to call on lawmakers not to repeal a broadly supported bail reform package enacted last year.
Proponents of the reforms — which aim to keep relatively low-risk defendants from sitting behind bars
for weeks or months awaiting trial
because they’re poor, while rich people can simply post bail and walk free — say the system now in place under HB206 is significantly better than the old one, which was based on cash bail.