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“To us, that is nothing more than a pretext to keep him detained. This seems unnecessarily punitive and adding insult to injury after the 10 years of hell that he has endured” -- Rebecca Vincent, Reporters Without Borders
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Shootings are up almost 29%, robberies are up 39%, transit crimes are up 30%, and auto thefts are up 72%. Critics of the new bail laws point to many incidents of crimes committed by those who normally would have been imprisoned but were released back onto the streets.

The baby died on December 3, 2019 after ingesting methamphetamine that Ojeda left out.  Ojeda was charged with 2nd degree manslaughter and assault.

New York City police commissioner James O’Neill resigned, after three years of service, following the city’s new rule eliminating bail and plans to release 900 inmates to New York City streets upon the closing of Riker's Island penitentiary in January.

Crimes that will allow suspects to be immediately released without bail include assault, criminally negligent homicide, manslaughter, promoting a sexual performance by a child, and more.

During the first hearing in what’s expected to be a protracted legal battle over the US’s extradition request, Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange told a British judge that he wished to fight extradition, and the hearing was concluded with the next court date set for May 30.

Fazeli's mother, who was not present during the altercation, says her son told her that Peters got physical first. Fazeli was released on $55,000 bail, despite having a prior conviction for a minor assault charge on his record.

Russiagate refuses to lay down and die just yet.
Even as President Trump begins to more openly discuss the need to bring Russia back into the G8 nations and as he discusses feeling vindicated by the Justice Department’s Inspector General report on the Hillary Clinton / FBI e-mail probe, Paul Manafort had his bail revoked by a federal judge. He is now to be sent to jail while awaiting separate trials on money laundering and fraud charges. These charges followed allegations that he sought to obstruct the Russia inquiry whilst being under house arrest.

(ANTIMEDIA) — The United States is known for having one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, fueled by the Drug War, a bought-off justice system, and the ever-flourishing prison-industrial complex.

LOS ANGELES — The current efforts against the cash-money bail system in the United States can look to the Movement for Black Lives as their spark. Over the last year, that movement has brought into the public consciousness the costs — financial and human — of that system, as well as the existence of more humane alternatives to it.