The New York Times: It is a decision made over and over again across the city, especially in the Bronx. Anyone in the boroughs court system is familiar with the dilemma: People who cannot pay bail often plead guilty, accepting a possibly life-altering record to go home to a child, to continue working, to return to whatever they left in the outside world. Many have in fact committed crimes. But some have not. An experimental program aims to help some of those people avoid jail time or a hastily made guilty plea by paying bail for poor defendants charged with misdemeanors. The fund is a project of The Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit provider of legal services.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:08:03 +0000
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