“‘Every single client I saw hauled off to a jail cell because they didn’t have enough money to pay their cash bail created the incentive in me to question how we could attack the cash bail system from the front end.'”

“No New Yorker was any safer for rich people buying their way out, or poor people languishing in jail.”

“Advocates who have called for changes to New York’s criminal justice system are starting a new effort to overhaul how people are sentenced to prison.”

“Despite the study, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts says the federal judiciary has worked hard to make sure defendants aren’t detained “unless the law identifies a specific need to protect the public.”

“The right to bail under the state and federal constitutions routinely is stood on its head, so that instead of being used to get people out of jail, bail is misused to keep people in.”