Effective January 2020, as part of a series of measures to promote fairness and due process in the criminal justice system, New York State has passed reforms eliminating money bail and pretrial detention for nearly all misdemeanors and non-violent felonies.
These analyses (summary and comprehensive) explain several important provisions intended to protect victims of domestic violence and use data from New York City to explore the reforms’ potential implications in such cases. Among the notable findings is an expected pronounced gap in the number of domestic violence cases eligible for bail as compared to the smaller number of eligible cases not involving domestic violence.
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