Toward Safety, Liberty, and Equity: A Community-Centered Framework for Redesigning Minnesota's Pretrial System
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| author | Hall, Anna Page, Joshua Simonton, Anna |
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| contents | <p>This report presents findings and recommendations from an 18-month legislative study of Minnesota's pretrial system, which has drifted from its constitutional foundation of maximizing liberty to a money-based system that creates two tiers of justice. Through extensive community engagement with hundreds of Minnesotans, interviews with 42 system actors, site visits to other jurisdictions, legal analysis, and data review, researchers found that approximately 56% of Minnesota jail populations are held pretrial, with Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native people vastly overrepresented and Greater Minnesota counties showing the highest detention rates. The current system's reliance on financial resources for pretrial release leads to worse case outcomes for detained individuals and undermines long-term community safety by jeopardizing access to housing, employment, and other critical resources. To address these systemic failures, the report recommends comprehensive transformation including expanded cite-and-release policies, guaranteed right to counsel at bail hearings, replacement of the money-based system with an intentional release/detain framework that only detains individuals posing serious flight risk or danger to others, establishment of supportive rather than punitive pretrial services, and enhanced victim/survivor safety measures including domestic violence risk assessments and improved notification systems. Successful implementation will require dedicated collaboration among state leaders, system actors, and community members to build a pretrial system rooted in Minnesota's values of safety, liberty, and equity.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Toward Safety, Liberty, and Equity: A Community-Centered Framework for Redesigning Minnesota's Pretrial System Hall, Anna Page, Joshua Simonton, Anna pretrial detention pretrial reform bail reform cash bail monetary bail pretrial justice Minnesota pretrial services community safety <p>This report presents findings and recommendations from an 18-month legislative study of Minnesota's pretrial system, which has drifted from its constitutional foundation of maximizing liberty to a money-based system that creates two tiers of justice. Through extensive community engagement with hundreds of Minnesotans, interviews with 42 system actors, site visits to other jurisdictions, legal analysis, and data review, researchers found that approximately 56% of Minnesota jail populations are held pretrial, with Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native people vastly overrepresented and Greater Minnesota counties showing the highest detention rates. The current system's reliance on financial resources for pretrial release leads to worse case outcomes for detained individuals and undermines long-term community safety by jeopardizing access to housing, employment, and other critical resources. To address these systemic failures, the report recommends comprehensive transformation including expanded cite-and-release policies, guaranteed right to counsel at bail hearings, replacement of the money-based system with an intentional release/detain framework that only detains individuals posing serious flight risk or danger to others, establishment of supportive rather than punitive pretrial services, and enhanced victim/survivor safety measures including domestic violence risk assessments and improved notification systems. Successful implementation will require dedicated collaboration among state leaders, system actors, and community members to build a pretrial system rooted in Minnesota's values of safety, liberty, and equity.</p> |
| title | Toward Safety, Liberty, and Equity: A Community-Centered Framework for Redesigning Minnesota's Pretrial System |
| topic | pretrial detention pretrial reform bail reform cash bail monetary bail pretrial justice Minnesota pretrial services community safety |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18261987 |