If you ask Democrats in New York why they haven’t passed comprehensive criminal justice reform after winning a majority in both houses of the state Legislature for the first time in nearly a decade, they’ll tell you they want to do it “right,” rather than do it quick.

But when it comes to reforming, and most likely ending, the state’s system of monetary bail, doing it right has turned out to be a more arduous task than some may have expected.

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