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5 results foundAuthor: Phillips, Mary T. Title: Making Bail in New York City: Commercial Bonds and Cash Bail Summary: This research examined bail making by defendants in New York City in a sample of cases with an arrest in 2005, focusing on the role of commercial bonds. The report concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings, suggesting several strategies that could lessen defendants' growing reliance on bondsmen. Details: New York: New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc., 2010. 98p. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 118716 Keywords: Bail (New York City)Bail BondsmenCommercial BondsPre-trial Release |
Author: Phillips, Mary T. Title: Commercial Bail Bonds in New York City: Characteristics and Implications Summary: This report updates and expands upon a recent study of bail making by the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc. (CJA), which found that bail bondsmen play a much larger role in New York City than they once did (Phillips 2010a, hereafter referred to as the “bailmaking report”). The research revealed that bonds accounted for 15% of all bail releases in the study sample, and 21% of cases with bail set at $1,000 or more. The bail-making report presented data showing that over 750 commercial bonds were posted in the four largest boroughs of the City for cases with an arrest from July through September 2005. (The term “commercial bond” is used here to refer to an insurance company bail bond, written by a commercial bond agent.) That number results in an annualized estimate of about 3,000 bonds per year in the City, although the actual total is undoubtedly higher than that. The majority of defendants in New York City are still released on recognizance, and the majority of defendants who make bail do so by posting cash directly with the court. Still, the research showed that commercial bonds are by no means the rarity they once were. Analyses presented in the bail-making report utilized defendant and case-processing data from the CJA database, as well as form-of-bail data from the Office of Court Administration (OCA). The research examined the factors associated with making bail by cash versus bond, including the amount of bail set at arraignment, the courts’ use of cash alternatives, and time to release. Supplementary information collected by hand from cash bail receipts was presented pertaining to the sureties who posted cash bail for defendants, their relationship to the defendant, and geospatial relationships among the locations of the jail where the defendant was held, the bail-posting site, and the surety’s residence. Supplementary data describing characteristics of cash bail cases were presented citywide and for all four boroughs included in the research. Comparably detailed information about bonds was also collected by hand from court papers filed by bail bondsmen, but when the bail-making report was in preparation this supplemental information for bond cases had been collected only for Brooklyn and Manhattan. The results, revealing striking differences between the two boroughs, were presented in the full report (Phillips 2010a) and summarized in the corresponding Research Brief (Phillips 2010b) with a cautionary comment on the preliminary nature of the conclusions. We promised to enlarge the number of cases with supplementary bond data citywide and to round out the borough comparisons by adding supplementary data from the Bronx and Queens in a future update. This report provides that update with the presentation of supplementary bond data for all four of the largest boroughs and expands the analyses to consider the implications for bail setting suggested by the citywide data. Details: New York: New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc., 2011. 70p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 28, 2011 at: http://www.cjareports.org/reports/bonds2010final.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.cjareports.org/reports/bonds2010final.pdf Shelf Number: 121543 Keywords: Bail Bonds (New York City)Bail BondsmenPretrial Release |
Author: Phillips, Mary T. Title: Commercial Bail Bonds in New York City Summary: This report expands upon a recent study of bail making by the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc. (CJA), which found that bail bondsmen play a much larger role in New York City than they did 30 years ago Research Brief #23, 2010). Commercial bail bonds are the most common form of pretrial release throughout the country, but for decades New York City has been different. Release on recognizance (ROR) accounts for two thirds of releases at arraignment in NYC. And when bail is set, it is more likely to be made by posting cash directly with the court than by posting a bond. However, the use of commercial bonds has increased in New York City in recent years, to well over 3,000 bonds annually. For cases with bail set at $1,000 or more, commercial bonds account for one in five bail releases. Defendants buy bonds because the amount of cash required up front can be considerably less than would be needed to post cash bail. The drawback is that a bond is much more expensive in the long run because cash bail is refunded. In addition, the bondsman can revoke the bond, sending the defendant back to jail, without giving the courts a reason. Citywide data are presented describing characteristics of bond agents, insurance companies, and co-signers. The research focused primarily on the financial aspects of commercial bonds and identified significant borough differences. These findings were used to devise a tool — the “effective cash discount” — that would enable the courts to set cash alternatives at a level calculated to remove the financial incentive for posting a bond rather than cash, tailored to the borough and bond amount. The report concludes with several recommendations, including use of an effective cash discount, that would lessen reliance on bondsmen. Details: New York, NY: CJA New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc., 2011. 8p. Source: CJA Research Brief No. 26: Internet Resource: Accessed on January 29, 2012 at http://www.cjareports.org/reports/brief26.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.cjareports.org/reports/brief26.pdf Shelf Number: 123879 Keywords: Bail (New York City)Bail BondsmenCommercial BondsDefendants |
Author: Justice Policy Institute Title: For Better or For Profit: How the Bail Bonding Industry Stands in the Way of Fair and Effective Pretrial Justice Summary: As early as 1912 – 100 years ago – critics were concerned that poor people remained in jail while awaiting trial solely because of their inability to pay even small bail amounts, that bail bondsmen had become too prominent in the administration of justice and that corruption plagued the industry. Amazingly, these issues still apply to the for-profit bail bond system in today, the Justice Policy Institute shows in its report new report, For Better or For Profit: How the Bail Bonding Industry Stands in the Way of Fair and Effective Pre-Trial Justice. There are approximately 15,000 bail bond agents working in the United States, writing bonds for about $14 billion annually. Bail bond companies take billions from low-income people, with no return on investment in terms of public safety and added costs to communities, according to JPI’s findings. Backed by multibillion dollar insurance giants, the for-profit bail bonding industry maintains its hold in the pretrial system through political influence. For Better or For Profit recommends the U.S. should end for-profit bail bonding; promote and further institutionalize pretrial services; and require greater transparency within the industry. Details: Washington DC: Justice Policy Institute, 2012. 57p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 21, 2012 at: http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/_for_better_or_for_profit_.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/_for_better_or_for_profit_.pdf Shelf Number: 126392 Keywords: Bail (U.S.)Bail BondsmenPretrial Release |
Author: Krahl, David E. Title: An Analysis of the Financial Impact of Surety Bonding on Aggregate and Average Detention Costs and Cost Savings in the State of Florida for 2008 by a Single Florida Insurance Company: A Follow-Up Study to Earlier Research Summary: In the twenty-first century world and in light of a sub-optimally performing economy, counties and local governments are attempting to find cost-effective and financially pragmatic ways to contain costs. The edict of "doing more with less" has been the perpetual mantra of local and county government officials when seeking to provide government services without increasing the size or the costs of the bureaucratic infrastructure. This has been particularly true when it comes to the issue of jail overcrowding, and the question of how to reduce the costs of jail operations. Today's jails are filled with defendants who are awaiting trial, those who are awaiting sentencing or who are actually serving sentences, those who are awaiting transportation to state prison facilities, illegal immigrants who have been apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and those who are detained to civil commitment orders. One pragmatic and workable solution to the problem of jail overcrowding and that oftentimes is routinely ignored by government officials is the use of surety bonding as a way to effectuate the pretrial release of those defendants who are awaiting trial. To say the least, the use of surety bonding has a rich tradition in the United States. One of the distinct advantages of surety bonding is that it functions as cost-effective mechanism to provide for the pretrial release of defendants at an absolute zero-cost to taxpayers. Because the surety bonding industry operates in the private sector, surety bonding is a strategy that does not increase either the size of the government's bureaucracy or the expense of its operation. Government-funded pretrial release programs are unable to make either of these claims; nor can they substantiate the cost-efficiency of their performance through the use of empirical data. This research is a follow-up study to one conducted last year which documents the cost-savings associated with surety bonding as a pretrial release mechanism for one surety bonding company in the state of Florida. This study also discusses the implications of these findings relative to the operation of the process of pretrial release. It also calls for more extensive research to further address the problems posed by government-sponsored pretrial release programs in terms of burgeoning costs to taxpayers and increasing the size of government infrastructure. Details: Tampa, Florida: Department of Criminology, University of Tampa, 2009. 65p. Source: Library Resource: Accessible at Don M. Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice. Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 127260 Keywords: BailBail BondsmenCorrectional OperationsCorrections (Florida)Costs of Criminal Justice (Florida)Jail OvercrowdingPretrial Release |