{"id":9418,"date":"2022-11-29T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2022-11-29T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:16:48","slug":"tough-on-crime-cash-bail-initiatives-win-in-ohio-and-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9418","title":{"rendered":"Tough-on-Crime Cash Bail Initiatives Win in Ohio and Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Ohio’s new constitutional amendment<\/a> will allow judges to set a dollar amount commensurate with a person’s criminal record, the seriousness of their alleged crime, and their odds of appearing at court following pretrial release. The Ohio Senate ushered the initiative forward in direct response to a ruling from the state’s highest court, which said in early January that bail could only be used to ensure a defendant’s presence at trial\u2014the constitutionally prescribed reason for its use.
In Alabama, voters were tasked<\/a> with deciding if the state should be able to deny bail for certain offenses if the government can convince a judge that the defendant poses a threat to the community or cannot be trusted to return to court. Those offenses include murder; first-degree kidnapping, rape, and sodomy; sexual torture; first-degree domestic violence, human trafficking, burglary, arson, and robbery; terrorism; and child abuse.”
…
“the debate has become increasingly politicized. Many reformers say<\/a> that a dangerousness standard is racist, while law-and-order politicians are likely to present<\/a> any bail reform as a driver of violent crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is more nuanced than either major political party would want their base to believe.”
https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/08\/tough-on-crime-cash-bail-initiatives-win-in-ohio-and-alabama\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Ohio’s new constitutional amendment will allow judges to set a dollar amount commensurate with a person’s criminal record, the seriousness of their alleged crime, and their odds of appearing at court following pretrial release. The Ohio Senate ushered the initiative forward in direct response to a ruling from the state’s highest court, which said in early January that bail could only be used to ensure a defendant’s presence at trial\u2014the constitutionally prescribed reason for its use.<\/p>\n

In Alabama, voters were tasked with deciding if the state should be able to deny bail for certain offenses if the government can convince a judge that the defendant poses a threat to the community or cannot be trusted to return to court. Those offenses include murder; first-degree kidnapping, rape, and sodomy; sexual torture; first-degree domestic violence, human trafficking, burglary, arson, and robbery; terrorism; and child abuse.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“the debate has become increasingly politicized. Many reformers say that a dangerousness standard is racist, while law-and-order politicians are likely to present any bail reform as a driver of violent crime.
\nThe answer is more nuanced than either major political party would want their base to believe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1197,282,744,280,372,198,783,479],"class_list":["post-9418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-alabama","tag-bail","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-ohio","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9419,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions\/9419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}