UB Law Pretrial Justice Clinic Resources
| Co-Directors Colin Starger & Zina Makar along with PTJC Student Attorney Meghan Ellis |
Pretrial Justice Organizations
- Pretrial Justice Institute
- Vera Institute (Bail and Pretrial)
- Civil Rights Corps
- Center for Court Innovation (Bail Reform)
- Gov's Commission to Reform MD's Pretrial System
Risk Assessment
Opposing Mass Incarceration
- Prison Policy Initiative
- Justice Policy Institute
- #Cut50 Campaign to Cut Prison Population by 50%
- Coalition for Public Safety
Institutional Reports
- Selling Off Our Freedom: How Insurance Companies Have Taken over our Bail System (ACLU 5/2017)
- High Cost of Bail: How Maryland's Reliance on Money Bail Jails the Poor and Costs the Community Millions (OPD 11/15/2016)
- Moving Beyond Money: A Primer on Bail Reform (CJPP, Harvard Law: 2016)
- DOJ Investigation of BCPD (Civil Rights Division: 2016)
- Defining Violence: Reducing Incarceration by Rethinking America's Approach to Violence (JPI 2016)
- Modernizing MD's Bail System (PJI: John Clark 2016)
- Detaining the Poor (PPI: Rabuy & Kopf 2016)
- Fundamentals of Bail (DOJ/NIC: Tim Schnacke 2014)
- Unsecured Bonds: Most Effective Pretrial Release (PJI 2013)
- Commission to Reform MD Pretrial System (2014)
- Warnken Report on Pretrial Release (MD Bond Assoc. 2002)
- MD Pretrial Release Project (Deely Committee 2001)
Key Cases and Recent Decisions
Pretrial Justice Clinic Home * Money Bail and its Role in Mass Incarceration Symposium