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The Impact of New York Bail Reform on Statewide Jail Populations: A First Look

11 Feb 2021

This report by the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) is the first to examine the impact of April 2019’s bail reform in New York State by exploring trends in jail populations and admissions in New York City and a sample of counties. [...] The trends in the pretrial jail population in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic were very different between New York City and counties outside of New York City. [...] In the months leading up to bail reform implementation, the proportion of people held in jail pretrial was consistently higher in New York City than outside of the city. [...] As a result, the relative proportion of people held pretrial increased In contrast to bail reform, the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have had a greater impact on New York City’s jail population than on the jail populations of counties outside of the city. [...] Statewide daily jail populations following bail reform and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic Jail populations fell sharply as counties began to implement bail reform Bail reform appeared to have the greatest impact on the pretrial population, but it also led to reductions in the number of people held on local jail sentences COVID-19 further reduced jail populations, particularly the number of peo.

Authors

gmendoza

Pages
44
Published in
United States of America