NBC
“Did Illinois get bail reform right? Criminal justice advocates are optimistic.”
Monday, February 15, 2021,
By Lily Datz
, Crandall Melvin Associate Professor Law and director of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Civics Initiative in the College of Law, was quoted by NBC for the story “.” Gouldin, an expert on criminal justice reform, explains that bail system is ultimately a “wealth-based detention system” rather than a system to prevent risks to public safety. “When you set a price for release for people who are charged with a particular kind of offense, that immediately creates two different outcomes for people with money and people without money,” Gouldin says.