U.S. Department of Justice

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  • 023453

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  • Published 2008.
  • 20 pages.

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Pre-Trial Legal Aid for Criminal Defendants: A Cost-Benefit Approach

Publication year: 2008 | Cataloged on: Dec. 16, 2008
ANNOTATION: The influence that legal aid has on the decision of an appropriate bail is explained. Sections comprising this report include: introduction; modeling the role of legal aid at the pre-trial detention stage; legal aid and the cost benefit analysis of PTD (pre-trial detention); legal aid in practice; evidence on "costs" and "benefits"; and concluding remarks. A study in Baltimore shows that guaranteed representation at bail saves an estimated $4.5 million a year.
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