A fight over replacing bail with "risk assessment tools" has split reform advocates. Some fear the change will worsen anti-Black discrimination.

A Bail Reform Tool Intended to Curb Mass Incarceration Has Only Replicated Biases in the Criminal Justice System . Kentucky was an early adopter of risk assessments in an effort to release more ...

Bail. As Bail Reforms Gain Steam, Civil Rights Groups Warn About Overreliance on Risk Assessment Tools Data and algorithms can help end biases, but they can also help perpetuate them.

In its quest to eliminate bail, New Jersey has turned to tech tools that speed up the process of deciding who does and doesn't await trial behind bars.

Requiring the availability of so-called “risk assessment tools” was the top recommendation of a task force commissioned by the court last year to examine Ohio's bail system.

Criminal justice advocates look at New Orleans’ successful reduction in jail population -- 1,200 inmates now compared to more than 6,000 pre-Katrina -- as the first step in a movement ...

And it is currently the only suite of risk assessment tools allowed by law. By July, the task force finished its work and issued a report, which recommended changes to Ohio’s bail system.

We can achieve bail reform with commonsense policy change; we don’t need to rely on biased algorithms. In fact, since COVID-19, 33 of our 88 counties have reduced jail populations across Ohio.

The House took up Senate Joint Resolution 1 on third reading, which would require judges to deny bail for immigrants in Texas illegally who are accused of a felony. It did not get enough support ...