Criminal Justice Group Drops Support For Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools As Ohio Justices Seek To Block Their Use Reform advocates say the risk assessments are racially biased and are not effective at their key tasks: predicting the likelihood someone will return to court. Dawn R. Wolfe
New Data Suggests Risk Assessment Tools Have Little Impact on Pretrial Incarceration Around one-third of counties in the United States use the tools when making release decisions, but few monitor whether they work as intended. Ethan Corey
How a Tool to Help Judges May Be Leading Them Astray In Cook County, Illinois, 99 percent of defendants deemed ‘high risk’ for pretrial violence don’t reoffend. Ethan Corey
California could soon end money bail, but at what cost? The passage of Senate Bill 10 would decimate the bail industry, but many advocates say it falls short of true reform. Max Rivlin-Nadler
The Danger of Automating Criminal Justice Advocates in Philadelphia say a new tool to assist judges in sentencing could perpetuate bias. Maura Ewing
