Politicians want you to pay for ‘cashless bail.’ It’s dangerous and expensive
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New Jersey's 2016 bail reform eliminated constitutional right to bail, created taxpayer burden and reduced accountability compared to private secured bail system
The costs are staggering. In 2016, the New Jersey Association of Counties sued the state because there was no funding in county budgets for this massive new mandate. Michelle Esquenazi is president of the National Association of Bail Agents.
In 2016, New Jersey passed the Bail Reform Act, removing the accused's right to bail and replacing private secured bail with a taxpayer-funded pretrial release bureaucracy. Here’s what happened:
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