At a budget hearing Thursday, the administrative head of New Jersey’s court system touted the state’s nascent bail-reform system as a success, but urged changes in how it is funded.
Judge Glenn Grant, the acting administrative director of the courts, told the New Jersey Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee that the state now has a more fair system—one that presumes that most criminal defendants who are not charged with violent crimes will be released pending trial without having to post monetary bond.
