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Illinois' Pretrial Fairness Act, which abolishes cash bail as a condition of pretrial release, will take effect Sept. 18, making Illinois the first state to end cash bail and a testing ground for ...
As of March 2021, three states have abolished cash bail for the majority of court cases and one state has fully abolished cash bail starting January 2023. In 2014, New Jersey enacted reforms that took effect on January 1, 2017.
The governor was asked during an unrelated presser about Mayor Adams’ repeated calls to overhaul the state’s bail reforms and whether she is considering his call to allow judges to weigh ...
The COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. state of New Jersey with the first confirmed case occurring in Bergen County on March 2, 2020, and testing positive on March 4. As of January 11, 2022, 1.63 million cases were confirmed in the state, incurring 26,795 deaths.
Here's how I got out," Nicolas Morales, a 37-year old undocumented immigrant detained for five months in New Jersey's Elizabeth Detention Center, an ICE-contracted facility run by CoreCivic, a private for-profit corporation traded on the New York Stock Exchange, explains his five-month ordeal ended after a federal judge declared COVID-19 posed ...
Jun. 5—CONCORD — After five years of sometimes bitter division, House and Senate negotiators on Wednesday endorsed a bail reform bill that would require those arrested for violent crimes to ...
Bail laws in Australia are similar to the laws of New Zealand and Canada, but are different in each state. Each state holds that there is a prima facie entitlement to bail for most charges upon application by a defendant. However, there is an exception when the charges are especially serious, such as drug trafficking, family violence or murder.
As we ring in the new year New Jersey will see a number of new laws taking effect. Here is what you need to know about some of 2024's new laws. New NJ laws are going into effect in 2024.