The Bail Post
What do we know about criminal justice reforms or bail reform? How do we evaluate whether reforms are helping or making the situation worse? How can we take politics out of criminal justice and focus on public safety? The Bail Post seeks to be a place where legislators and the public can educate themselves on a host of criminal justice/bail reform issues. With various attempts at criminal justice reform from New York to Texas to California, many people are confused as to what is working and what is not. With the passage of time, more and more data is coming to light over what successful reform looks like and what reforms have been found to not be working. The rise in violent crime across the country has been startling and law makers and the public alike are desperate to find legislation that is effective. Some might ask whether some of the reforms making the situation worse? The Bail Post is an on-going discussion that seeks to cut to the core to provide education on the various issues raised and to highlight what successful criminal justice reform looks like and what measures have been disastrous. Join us and educate yourself about the best practices that jurisdictions must implement to keep their communities safe, while ensuring fairness to defendants. As a someone said recently "Public safety is the foundation of a society. Without public safety we do not have a society." If you would like to listen other episodes of The Bail Post you can find a subject matter index of the different episodes at- https://pbtx.blogspot.com/p/subject-index-to-bail-post-podcasts.html. The host is Ken W. Good; an attorney in Tyler, Texas who has been licensed for over 30 years. He has argued cases before the Supreme Court of Texas and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Mr. Good has written a book on bail called "Goods On Bail." He has also has had numerous papers published on Criminal Justice Reform issues. Mr. Good is a board member of PBT and serves on the legislative committee. Mr. Good is married and has two daughters.
Episodes
On this episode, we talk immigration, deportations and bail. Our Guest is Randy Adler. Randy is a very good friend and we have known each other for many years. Randy has been practicing bail law in the state of Texas for over 40 years. On this episode we discuss what bondsmen can do when they post a bail bond for a defendant and then learn that there is a ICE hold. This is an issue that has grown in importance with the changes...
Jim Quinn is a former assistant district attorney in Queens, New York. His family has lived in New York for four generations. Jim was on the front lines as New York passed bail reform through the the budget bill in 2019 and when it went into effect in January 2020. Jim has written numerous articles about the New York bail reform and its impact on crime. On this episode of The Bail Post we look back at 5 years under the New York...
On this episode of The Bail Post, we discuss the major bail bills pending before the Texas Legislature. There are two proposed constitutional amendments: SJR 1 and SJR 5. There are also two bills: SB 9 and SB 40.
SJR 1 is a proposed constitutional amendment that states if you are charged with a felony and you are in Texas illegally and did not enter a port of entry properly, then you are not entitled to bail. The House compan...
At the end of the Star Wars movie "New Hope" the rebels have a great victory only to see the victory short lived in "The Empire Strikes Back." On this episode of The Bail Post we find out the great victory of the November election is already slipping away in California and the entrenched advocates are well on the way with their "Plan B." Our guest is a returning guest. He is retired Chief Patrick Jo...
"History is full of examples where good intentions paved the way to disastrous outcomes. Today, we are witnessing another such moment -- a social experiment in criminal justice reform that has unleashed unforeseen consequences on our urban communities.
This experiment was built on two flawed premises. The first was that bail is unnecessary and people would voluntarily appear in court without financial incentives. T...
This Episode of The Bail Post was recorded several months before the election last November. When we attempted to post information regarding this episode on social media, it was immediately deleted. After multiple attempts to post the information we began to question our decision to cover this matter. Were we duped? Were we just wrong? Then the issue of cartels and drugs became an issue in the Presidential election. Now that ...
On this episode of The Bail Post we discuss an important case involving a recovery agent who was licensed in Louisiana. A defendant who was charged with a misdemeanor failed to appear for court and then went to the state of Missouri where she was staying at the time she was filed. The recovery agent and his partner traveled to Missouri, took the defendant into their custody and began traveling back to Louisiana. The defendant wa...
The district clerk wears many hats. As we have seen the expansion of the digital formats and e-filing, the hats that the district clerk has to wear has only expanded. As many counties have overseen the conversion of old software systems to new over the last couple of years, some have experienced more problems that others. Our guest on this episode of The Bail Post is the District Clerk of McLennan County. Mr. Gimble has oversee...
On this episode of The Bail Post we meet the new President of PBUS David Stuckman as we discuss multiple issues. One of the issues that we highlight is the recent data breach of Capitar's cloud based bail software and the responses by bail agents. We also discuss bail in the state of Kansas and we find out that there are both property bondsmen and corporate bondsmen. We also discuss the laws in Kansas for returning the defe...
Our guest on this episode of The Bail Post is the sitting district attorney for Harris County- Kim Ogg. D.A. Ogg was first elected to become district attorney in 2016 with the support of a Soros political group. She was re-elected in 2020 without the support of a Soros political group.
D.A. Ogg was present for all the inside political discussions for criminal justice reform/bail reform in Harris County. D.A. Ogg initially support...
This is the second of two episodes regarding Charitable Bail Funds. The first part was episode number 5 of The Bail Post. On this episode on The Bail Post we highlight what states have done since Texas enacted a bill requiring transparency for Charitable Bail Funds. The state of Indiana limited these funds so that they could not post a bond over a certain size. Also, recently, the state of Georgia passed a bill limiting these f...
Retired Chief Patrick Jordan worked for the L.A. County Sheriff's office for over 30 years. He has intimate knowledge regarding the California Criminal Justice System the reforms that have been pushed for years. He talks about the litigation that began attacking the State's failure to provide proper mental health care and medical care which lead to a three judge panel placing a cap on the State's prison population...
Jim Quinn is a former assistant district attorney in Queens, New York. His family has lived in New York for four generations. Jim was on the front lines as New York slipped bail reform into the budget bill in 2019 and when it went into effect in January 2020. Jim has written numerous articles about the New York bail reform and its impact on crime. On this episode of The Bail Post we evaluate the reforms and their impact on reci...
On this episode of The Bail Post we talk about the current theories regarding the causes of crime and how to deter it. Our guest is Dr. Jennifer Wooldridge. She is an associate professor of Criminal Justice and the Criminal Justice Undergraduate Coordinator at UT Tyler.
Domestic Violence Survivors are one of the unknown stories of Bail Reform Failures. As catch and release policies or arrest and release policies are being used more in our urban areas, one of the areas of society that is being most hit is in the area of domestic violence. In many places, survivors cannot rely upon the criminal justice system any longer to protect them; and instead, they have to plan their escape plan with the hel...
The United States Supreme Court denied the petition for cert. filed by the plaintiffs in Daves v. Dallas County in January. In February, the United States Supreme Court filed another petition for cert. filed in Little v. Doguet from Louisiana on a similar issue. Therefore, the Daves v. Dallas County case has finally been concluded. On this episode of The Bail Post we discuss the legacy of this case and the other important case c...
J.E. "Eddie" Guerra is the Sheriff of Hidalgo servicing around 1 million people. Sheriff Guerra was appointed to office after his predecessor resigned as a result of scandal. Sheriff Guerra rebuilt trust with the public and was reelected multiple times by the voters. Sheriff Guerra talks about the steps he took to rebuild trust with the public.
Hidalgo County is a border county with Mexico. As a result, Sheri...
On this episode of The Bail Post, we reach several milestones. First, this is episode number 50. Second this is the start of Season 3 of the Bail Post.
On Season 1, the first episode focused on what bondsmen do. On Season 2, the first episode highlighted why the private industry was so much more successful than any other release mechanism.
For Season 3, the first episode focuses on what it is that PBT does for the bondsmen of Texa...
On this episode of The Bail Post we discuss Russell v. Harris County. This case was filed to extend the ruling in ODonnell regarding misdemeanor judges issued by the Honorable Lee Rosenthal to the felony judges.
When the case was originally filed, the plaintiffs did not even sue the district court judges. Suit was filed against Harris County and the Harris County Sheriff. Next, the case was "stayed" or put on hold to al...
Following the death of George Floyd, the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus proposed an extensive legislative package that included criminal justice reforms alongside reforms in education, health care and human services, and economic policy. The bill was referred to as The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act.
The bill made a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecti...
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