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<p>Roughly half of U.S. counties do not provide defense counsel at bail hearings. A field experiment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, shows that providing counsel can decrease the use of monetary bail and pretrial detention.</p>
The nationwide jump in shootings and homicides early in the pandemic and the rise in other crimes that followed in some places have made crime a hot topic again in the United States. It has been a pro...
"There are times when it is simply too dangerous to public safety to release a defendant before trial," said State Sen. Eric Koch, R-Bedford.
A report released by Deep Center in partnership with the Vera Institute for Justice and the Southern Center for Human Rights attempts to answer this question.