Sentences with phrase «bail bond system»
Private has been a contentious word in the budget: an expansion of private school vouchers, a new private - school tax deduction, the creation of a private bail bond system.
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An effort in 2016 to make smart changes to the bail bond system and gradually increase the age at which youths are considered adults did not meet with success, but Mr. Coleman's continued support of those reforms will be relied on when the legislature reconvenes.
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They are there because of an archaic bail - bond system that favors the professional criminal (who counts bail as a business expense) and the affluent.
Additional trustees of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System Board include: Alan J. Bedenko, partner, Feldman Kieffer, LLP and a writer; Katie Burd, trustee, Kenmore Village; Frank Gist, retired Buffalo firefighter and owner of Greater Buffalo Bail Bonds Agency; Teresa Glanowski, product manager, Independent Health; Phyllis A. Horton, retired educator; Elaine M. Panty, retired City of Buffalo Water Authority; and Wayne D. Wisbaum, partner, Kavinoky Cook, LLP.
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer is calling for commercial bail bonds to be banned in the city as part of a larger bail system overhaul, according to a new report released by his office.
«Simply put, commercial bail bonds prop up an immoral system — and they should be banned in our city, once and for all.»
There is an ongoing conversation in New York about how to fix the bail system that many agree is broken, keeping too many poor people in jail after they are arrested for low - level nonviolent offenses but can not afford to post bond and, at times, allowing individuals back onto the street who are prone to violence but able to pay bail.
The budget would usher in commercial bail bonds into the court system for the first time since 1979.