"If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice." 
      Judge Learned Hand




Welcome to the Center for Legal and Evidence-Based Practices. I just released "Bipartisan Bail Reform," which you can find on this page and, along with a couple of associated documents, through a tab on the left. In many ways, the new paper updates many of my earlier papers, including "Fundamentals of Bail," "Money as a Criminal Justice Stakeholder," "Model Bail Laws," and "Changing Bail Laws." 


If there is any overarching message to these documents, it is the following for those who seek to change their bail laws: "Slow down or stop! Educate yourself on what you are attempting to do. Then, with that knowledge, make changes that will not harm society and that will not be quickly overturned." 

The CLEBP is a Colorado nonprofit corporation that strives to reform America's predominantly money-based bail system by promoting rational, fair, and transparent legal and evidence-based pretrial practices to achieve safer and more equitable communities as well as cost-effective government.  
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