The pandemic’s unintended consequence bail reform in Cuyahoga County: Leila Atassi
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Is it possible, that while we were all preoccupied with surviving a pandemic, the criminal justice system in Cuyahoga County quietly took an important step toward achieving a judicial reform that keeps poor defendants from languishing in jail unnecessarily?
It appears that’s what happened this fall, when Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge Brendan Sheehan gave his colleagues his blessing to begin using personal bonds to release defendants charged with low-level felonies, effectively thinning the jail’s population and letting defendants go to work and care for their children while awaiting trial.
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