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Bailing on Justice: Plea Bargain Sentencing Outcomes
by Esmé Lise Mailloux Govan Abstract In 2020, over 630,000 American adults were detained in local jails each day, 74% of whom had not yet been convicted of a crime. These defendants were detained before going to court because they did not make bail. There is a large body of work documenting the negative impacts […]
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