Explaining New York’s 2023 Bail Reform Amendments
On May 2, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul signed New York’s fiscal year 2024 state budget, which included changes to the state’s bail reform law. Driven by an effort to reduce the number of people held in pretrial detention and address persistent economic and racial disparities1 in New York’s jail population,2 bail reform initially passed in 2019 and … Continued