The no cash bail thing in certain states and municipalities has nothing to do with what's being done at the federal level, which is a second chance type of act that was signed into effect by the president in 2018 to give old timers who have had lengthy sentences and have served a bulk of the time with good (great) behavior, and are at a low chance at recidivism, to be released at some point. Not sure if he felt this way personally but there were a lot of people in Trump's ear about the prison population being way too high, expensive, and there were a lot of old timers and/or non violent criminals locked up for long periods of time. He signed something in to help change this.Tonyd621 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 8:27 am I feel like this whole "soft on crime," low or no bail for previously convicted felons has allowed ppl like Russo and the other guy that was mentioned in the article to be let out. It's the political climate we are in. And they did more time then some of these others who commited similar crimes.
I can't speak to other states/areas but I know the low/no cash bail thing in NYC stemmed from a kid in early 2010s who was locked up in Rikers for suspicion of stealing a bookbag. Him and his family could not afford bail and he was there for somewhere between 7 months and a year (I forget the exact time) , refused to plead guilty to something he didn't do. The witness who said he stole the bookbag was here illegally and returned to Mexico, the case got thrown out, and the kid killed himself shortly after he returned home. Combined with people being held indefinitely form the stop-and-frisk era of Bloomberg, these types of things were happening far too often , people getting locked up and held for way too long while losing just about everything (jobs, housing, etc.) on the outside...only to have cases dropped or be found innocent. Not to mention the shit that happens IN jail when they are locked.
Just like everything else the baby got thrown out with the bathwater though and it's obviously led to some problems. The media absolutely creams themselves whenever someone who gets ROR'ed or released without bail commits another crime shortly after though. That's their bread and butter right now.