Tennessee Lookout: Legislators put bail bond industry under the microscope

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Jenna Bottler, with Justice Action Network, told lawmakers public safety “has to be the crux of the conversation.”

Yet she also showed a correlation between lengthy pretrial detention and recidivism. Defendants who stay in jail for 31 days have a 74% chance of committing another crime, compared to those who spend only two to three days in jail before trial who have a 39% chance of offending again.

Bottler agreed with Dixie that algorithms used to determine bail amounts can be “inherently biased” but said they could be used in a “broader context.”

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