#bail reform

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Bail reform targeting violent crime coming next week, Carney says - National | Globalnews.ca

The measures, which are set to be tabled in Parliament next week will focus on changing Canada’s Criminal Code, Prime Minister Mark Carney s

The federal government will propose bail reform legislation aimed at cracking down on violent crime and repeat offenders, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday. The measures, which Carney said are set to be tabled in Parliament next week will “keep violent and repeat offenders out of our communities.” “The government will table legislation to amend the Criminal Code for crimes committed by violent and repeat offenders – those accused of serious crimes like violent auto theft, breaking and entering, human trafficking, violent assault, and sexual assault,” Carney told reporters in Toronto on Thursday.

This article was posted on October 16, 2025.

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[catsofyore]

Free them! Ca. 1950s. Source.

[elierlick]

This is what all that fearmongering over bail reform was over. People waving brooms can be sent to jail without trial for months or years on the subjective whims of a judge.

[gwydionmisha]

Releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety

When these states, cities, and counties began releasing more people pretrial, there were no corresponding waves in crime.

[antiwaradvocates]

In Democratically controlled NY, right now, the Dem. Governor is holding the state budget hostage to dramatically change the state's bail laws to lock up thousands of Black & brown people. Needlessly. Lawmakers are getting ready to give judges the most power they've had in history to detain innocent people pretrial. NY State Democrats are ignoring facts about bail reform & choosing to listen to a NYC Mayor, who has expanded the torture of solitary confinement on Rikers, gutted public schools/libraries to pay billions more for police, and ended Medicare for retirees.

Bail reform has allowed hundreds of thousands of people to fight their charges while keeping jobs & housing, supporting their loved ones, & avoiding the pressure that all too often pushes people to plead guilty. All while saving hundreds of millions & reducing rearrest rates.

[lastweeksshirttonight]

John revisits bail after seven years to discuss current threats to bail reform, and why it is needed. As always, infuriating and educational.

[thealexiscowdell]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Guilty until proven innocent

By Stephen Millies

The so-called U.S. criminal justice system is just plain criminal. Two of its biggest atrocities are cash bail and solitary confinement.

Black Lives Matter activist Sandra Bland was held in a Waller County, Texas, jail because she couldn’t afford $5,000 bail.

Three days after Bland was arrested for a minor traffic violation, the 28-year old Black woman was found hanged in her jail cell on July 13, 2015. Many people don’t believe she committed suicide.

Albert Woodfox spent nearly 45 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison. Woodfox, who with two other members of the Black Panther Party were known as the “Angola 3,” was released in 2016.