Prison Reform

[Belsnickel]

(11-05-2019, 05:21 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Sorry, you get used to knowing all the acronyms we use.  OR is own recognizance.  CA is trying to eliminate cash bail entirely and go to either remanding, release on electronic monitoring or OR release as being the only options.  I believe NY state is also moving in that direction.  The prediction is that it's going to result in a rise on remanding because now even those accused of a violent crime can get cash bail, albeit in high amounts.  Eliminating that is predicted to result in judges erring more on the side of remanding rather than releasing with no collateral assurance of return.  It's also causing a lot of concern among victim's rights groups that violent attackers will be more likely to be released and cause further harm to the victim.  Unfortunately victim rights don't rate very high on the agenda of CA politicians.

Ok, that makes sense. Well, the acronym, not necessarily the system. There really should be an assessment on these sorts of things like a point system. "Domestic violence accusation: 5 points towards remand; Has a passport: 2 points towards remand; First offender: -5 points towards remand" or something like that. I'm sure studies could be done on correlating factors for people that are more or less likely to commit crimes or skip town when released.