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High-flight-risk criminal defendants are being rearrested on felony charges at a much higher rate than city officials projected after being freed without bail under an alternative-to-jail program, newly released state stats show.
Under criminal justice reforms that went into effect in , judges can no longer impose monetary bail against defendants for a vast array of charges.
As before, they also cannot factor in whether a defendant is a potential danger to the community. But for defendants judges consider prone to blow off returning to court, supervised release allows them to be freed pending trial without putting up bail.
Instead, they are monitored by social workers to ensure they return to court. In all, four out of every 10 individuals placed in the supervised release program from Jan. That includes 6. Glazer contends that supervised release defendants are similar to defendants for whom bail is set, estimating that re-arrest rates for both are similar.
The state data show that re-arrests for violent felonies for both supervised release and bail set defendants at 6. Defendants freed under supervised release are monitored by social workers and provided with help such as mental health services if they need it.
They are also subject to personalized obligations, which could include maintaining employment or school, surrendering passports, and if necessary orders of protection to stay away from an accuser.
In an email to THE CITY, the Vera Institute of Justice, a think tank focused on criminal justice reform, defended the program — theorizing that the increased number of rearrests could be related to havoc caused by the COVID pandemic, which has reduced social worker staff handling these cases. The state data shows pretrial release information for nearly , arraignments held in New York City courts during the time period, which coincided with the first year and a half of bail reform.
All but a few of those arraigned were freed pending trial, and most of those — on , arraignments — were not rearrested after release. But 26, were rearrested. THE CITY found that more than half of those rearrests occurred within four months of the defendants being freed, with 4, rearrested within weeks of their release.
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Call, or check the service website, for additional information. Organization :. Phone Numbers :. Fax :. Address :. Location :. Overall, the new numbers show Among those in supervised release, The The data was released in connection with reforms passed in that greatly reduced the types of crimes where judges could impose bail. The state Office of Court Administration and the Division of Criminal Justice Services are required to track the effects of the reforms, which rolled out Jan.
The data includes all arraignments of defendants in New York state for all charges — misdemeanors and felonies — from Jan. They were. Please consider joining us as a member today. Email tips thecity. Deaths despite Vision Zero measures and slowing bus speeds signal bumps ahead. And how are members chosen? The Department of Education policy affects roughly 9, out of about 80, fifth graders who have siblings in the same grade or sixth grade.
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