Pre-Trial Risk Assessment Statement of Concerns
Pre-Trial Risk Assessment Statement of Concerns
We believe that jurisdictions should work to end secured money bail and decarcerate most accused people pretrial, without the use of “risk assessment” instruments.
The extraordinary measure of pretrial detention should be treated as a last resort and should only be imposed upon an accused person after they’ve received a thorough, adversarial hearing that observes rigorous procedural safeguards respecting individual rights, liberties and the presumption of innocence.