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Criminal justice groups pen open letter to Hochul following the leak of ‘ten-point plan’

By Isabel Song Beer Posted on March 25, 2022
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Twenty leading criminal justice reform groups across New York State penned an open letter to Governor Kathy Hochul after a version of her ‘ten-point plan’ to roll back several pieces of bail reform legislation was leaked to the New York Post.

The open letter released on March 23 in response to the proposed plan argued that many of the points outlined in the plan would devastate Black, Brown and low-income communities by tweaking bail reform laws by giving judges more discretion to order bail and detain accused offenders for additional crimes based on criminal history, including repeat offenders.

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