On Jan. 1, 2017, the New Jersey Criminal Justice Reform Act became law. It specifically addressed the historical abuses of pretrial detention of the presumptively innocent. Poor people who are accused of nonviolent offenses sat in jail for long periods of time because they could not afford minimal bail, while other defendants who presented risks of danger or flight could obtain release on bail if they had access to untainted funds. County jails swelled with individuals whose ultimate dispositions did not involve incarceration. The unspoken collateral consequences of a system that relies on monetary bail is immeasurable.
Chief Justice Rabner and Judge Glenn Grant, the acting administrative director of the courts, were the effective advocates for reform and are to be commended.
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