The impasse with bail has blocked progress in budget talks on other issues such as funding for the MTA, affordable housing, and expanding charter schools in New York City.
Her proposal would eliminate the “least restrictive” standard that some judges claim makes them release criminal defendants without bail even when the alleged crime might allow it.But critics say her proposal would eviscerate a longstanding state law requiring the use of bail only to ensure someone returns to court while undermining progressive reforms passed in 2019.
State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins has argued that available data does not justify bail changes amid rising crime.when Walker unsuccessfully attempted to sway the “three people in a room” – Hochul, Heastie, and Stewart-Cousins – who craft the state budget to reject tweaks to cash bail laws that Hochul later touted on the campaign trail while running for a full term in office.
The state budget process gives Hochul some extra leverage to hold out on state lawmakers as the three sides approach the April 10 expiration of a budget extender they passed in order to keep the state government running while negotiations continue following aState legislators visited the notorious Rikers Island on Thursday to highlight conditions while arguing against Hochul’s bail proposal.
Assemblywoman Latrice Walker said Thursday that she will go on hunger strike to protest Hochul’s bail plans.State numbers on rearrests show that a high percentage of criminal defendants have shown up to court since new limits on cash bail took effect at the beginning of 2020.means thousands of cases statewide where someone might have committed a crime that would not have happened with looser rules in place on jailing people before their trials.
“Too often policy is debated in abstract. Let us be clear, Rikers Island is the Governor’s proposal brought to life,” Mamdani told The Post.
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