Housing Access for People with Criminal Records
By: Elayne Weiss, Senior Policy Analyst, National Low Income Housing Coalition
Answers to frequently asked questions, definitions and additional resources for those interested in issues of pretrial justice.
“Plea bargaining is more a part of the American justice system than the formal trial and, in fact, makes up the vast majority of criminal justice transactions today. Only 2 percent of federal criminal cases—and a similar number of state cases—are brought to trial. More than 90 percent of convictions, at both federal and state levels, are the result of guilty pleas.” — In the Shadows: A Review of the Research on Plea Bargaining.
By: Ram Subramanian, Léon Digard, Melvin Washington II, and Stephanie Sorage
Looking for a new podcast? “The Steep Road to Freedom” is a podcast produced by the ACLU of Ohio about work to reform and ultimately eliminate the cash bail system in Ohio.
(Listen for OJPC staff on Episode 3!)
A catalogue of all Ohio Trial Courts’ website and links to local rules.
Incarceration trends for Ohio — including rates, population information, and comparison to national and neighboring state trends.
Ohio has an incarceration rate of 679 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than many wealthy democracies do. Read on to learn more about who is incarcerated in Ohio and why.
Ohio’s reliance on cash bail has perpetuated a two-tiered system of justice: one for the wealthy and one for the rest of us. We can’t end mass incarceration without ending the bail system as we know it.
Link to the Ohio Revised Code.
Ohio’s reliance on cash bail has created a two-tiered system of justice where wealthier people accused of a crime go free while poorer people accused of the same crime stay behind bars. This animated short breaks down Ohio’s cash bail system.