Sentences with phrase «bail bond industry»

At 10 a.m., community organizations release report highlighting lack of oversight of for - profit commercial bail bond industry in New York City and call on elected officials and regulators to take immediate action to rein in predatory and illegal practices, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Stringer's office estimated that within the past year, the private bail bond industry extracted between $ 16 million and $ 27 million in nonrefundable fees from New York City defendants and their families.

the laws, the judges, the prosecutors — systemic racism is indeed a many - tentacled thing that is a business (private prison industry, the bail bond industry) and a set of politics («law and order» lip service, the war on drugs) that ultimately disenfranchises minorities and the poor far more than it does anyone else.

At 11:15 a.m., the Bail Bond Accountability Coalition, advocates and elected officials urge lawmakers to pass protections for consumers exploited by the bail bond industry, outside City Hall gates on the Broadway side, Manhattan.

The governor's proposals are likely to meet opposition from police unions, the bail bond industry, district attorneys and Republican lawmakers who control the Senate.

Also at noon, Color Of Change, Voices of Community Activists and Leaders New York and the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund deliver a petition and hold press a conference demanding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman investigate the bail bond industry in New York, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

In his Wednesday speech in Manhattan, Cuomo said he would launch a probe of the bail bond industry.