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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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1 results foundAuthor: Spalding, Ashley Title: Disparate Justice: Where Kentuckians Live Determines Whether They Stay in Jail Because They Can't Afford Cash Bail Summary: Kentuckians presumed innocent should not have their freedom contingent upon their income or where in the state they are arrested. And yet new data shows widely varying rates between counties in the use of cash bail and in the ability of those arrested to meet those monetary conditions. The share of cases with defendants released pretrial without monetary conditions ranges from just 5% in McCracken County to 68% in Martin County. And just 17% of cases subject to monetary bail in Wolfe County result in the defendant finding a way to make the payment while 99% do in Hopkins County. The data suggests an arbitrary system of justice based on location. In certain counties, people with low incomes face much higher risk of harms from being detained in jail ranging from job loss to higher likelihoods of being found guilty and committing crimes in the future. In addition, counties that detain more people on monetary conditions face additional jail costs many of them cannot afford. This data from Kentucky's Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) underscores the critical need for reform of the pretrial release system in Kentucky, especially as it relates to the imposition of monetary bail as a condition of release. It also raises serious questions about whether there is equal justice statewide due to vastly different pretrial release practices of our local justice systems. Details: Berea, Kentucky: Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, 2019. 10p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 24, 2019 at: https://kypolicy.org/disparate-justice-where-kentuckians-live-determines-whether-they-stay-in-jail/ Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://kypolicy.org/dash/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Disparate-Justice-Report-Final.pdf Shelf Number: 157042 Keywords: Cash Bail Jail Monetary Bail Pretrial Release Socioeconomic Issues |