New Jersey’s cash bail reform reduced incarceration without increasing gun violence, study says

New Jersey’s 2017 cash bail reform law—which eliminated financial barriers to avoiding pretrial detention—successfully reduced the state’s jail population without increasing gun violence, according to a study published this month in JAMA Network Open from researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health and Boston University. New Jersey’s 2017 cash bail reform law—which eliminated financial barriers to avoiding pretrial detention—successfully reduced the state’s jail population without increasing gun violence, according to a study published this month in JAMA Network Open from researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health and Boston University. Social Sciences Political science Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories