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New Jersey’s Cash Bail Reform Reduced Incarceration Without Increasing Gun Violence, Drexel Study Says

New Jersey’s 2017 cash bail reform law — which eliminated financial barriers to avoiding pretrial detention — successfully reduced the state’s jail population without increasing gun violence, according to a study published this month in JAMA Network Open from researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health and Boston University.

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