December 23, 2024

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New study illuminates ‘culture of detention’ in federal criminal cases

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Authors: Bail Reform Act being misapplied by judges, prosecutors

January 6, 2023

Over the course of two years, students and interns in the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School fanned out to four federal district courts, including in Boston, to observe more than 600 bail hearings.
They were investigating how faithfully the letter and spirit of the Bail Reform Act of 1984 was …



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