BALTIMORE — Maryland courts have run out of money to pay for indigent people charged with crimes to be released on home detention pending trial, putting hundreds of such defendants at risk of reincarceration, according to documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun. In 2021, the state sent $5 million to its Administrative Office of the Courts for a program that would pay private home detention .
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The 562 lawyers taking contract cases is a decrease of almost 50 percent from the 1,100 lawyers who were taking court-appointed cases in 2014, the Iowa State Bar Association said.