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(USGovernment-News.Com, April 20, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- According to a new study released, thousands of suspects sit in New Jersey county jails each and every day simply due to the fact that they cannot afford to meet the bail.
Over 5,000 inmates, which constitutes nearly 40% of the jail population that the study focused on, remain behind bars for the reason that they lack the funds to meet bail. Many sit in the jail cells because they cannot even meet the smaller amounts of bail.
Over 1,500 inmates, which is 12% of the state's entire jail population, would have been released if they paid $2,500 in bail amounts. The study was commissioned by the Drug Policy Alliance, which is a nonprofit group that fights for reforming the nation's drug laws.
The study was undertaken in 19 of the state's 21 counties, and it found that 800 inmates would have been released had they been able to meet the $500 in bail. The study found that the state's bail system, which has set within it a sliding scale for setting bail amounts for criminal charges, allows for low-risk defendants to remain behind bars while those with more fiscal means accused of more serious crimes can go free.
"They have not had their day in court," Roseanne Scotti, the alliance’s New Jersey director, said. “They have not been judged guilty of anything. People can spend months on end — and many are spending months on end — because they don’t have the money and the resources to be released."
The findings that were provided gave new fodder to the ongoing debate regarding bail and court reform within New Jersey. Governor Chris Christy, who is a former top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, made bail reform a priority in 2012 to give judges discretion in denying bail for suspects charged with more intensive offensives.
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