An initiative to apply American experience of bail criteria to a sample of English remand prisoners shows that the majority had strong community ties which seemed insufficiently recognised in the decision to hold them in custody. The author argues for urgent reform of Bail law and practice.
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Sturz, 'The Manhattan Bail Project and its Aftermath', 27American Journal of Correction No. 616-17 (1965).
