Lawmakers hear suggestions to ‘refine’ bail system
Willie Santana, law professor at Lincoln Memorial University in Knoxville, and Jasmine Heiss, of the Vera institute, discuss bail reform at a General Assembly committee meeting in Nashville on Sept. 13, 2021. (Ian Round/Daily Memphian)
Prosecutors, sheriffs, judges, criminal justice reform advocates and others testified to a General Assembly committee on the money bail system Monday, Sept. 13. But lawmakers leaned more to small changes than sweeping reform.
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Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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