#pretrial-detention

#pretrial-detention

Women are the fastest growing incarcerated population in the United States. The female incarceration rate has ballooned by more than 700% since 1980 - 172,700 women and girls were in jail or prison in 2023. A quarter of these (46,300) are confined because they were either refused bail or cannot afford it, rather than because they were found guilty of a crime. Over 14,000 are awaiting trial for drug-related offenses.

Aleksanteri Kivimäki, convicted of thousands of cybercrimes linked to the Vastaamo data breach, has been released from custody by the Helsinki Court of Appeal. The decision followed two days of testimony from Kivimäki, who denied all charges. The court cited his prolonged pretrial detention as the reason for release. He has been in custody since February 2023. His trial will continue through November.

Right-wing Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho has been released from jail after spending nearly three years in pretrial detention for his role in unrest that led to the 2019 ouster of then left-wing President Evo Morales. As the political right's momentum accelerates ahead of a presidential election run-off in October, Camacho returned to a hero's welcome in the eastern province of Santa Cruz after his release on Friday from a maximum-security prison near La Paz.

Zoom in: Under cashless bail, a suspect doesn't need to pay money to be released from custody before trial. Trump previewed his support for ending cashless bail in D.C. earlier this month. When he announced his decision to federalize the D.C. police force, he called the policy a "disaster." Analysts say such claims aren't supported by crime statistics, which show an exceedingly small percentage of defendants are arrested for violent crimes while awaiting trial.