Human Rights Watch Opposes California Senate Bill 10, The California Bail Reform Act

Assembly Member Adrin Nazarian State Capitol P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0046Assemblymember.nazarian@assembly.ca.gov Dear Assembly Member Nazarian, Human Rights Watch strongly opposes passage of The California Bail Reform Act, SB 10, and urges you to vote against it. Human Rights Watch, for years, has been a leading advocate nationally for reform of our bail and pretrial incarceration systems. We published a report in 2011 exposing the harms of the bail system in New York City.1 In 2017, we published “Not in it for Justice: How California’s Pretrial Detention and Bail System Unfairly…

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