Jackson Jambalaya

The purpose of bail is to ensure defendants appear in court. Period. Read that on repeat until it sinks in.

What is "Barksdale Today"?

let people stay out or jail who are awaiting trial who aren’t violent? great move. we don’t need tax dollars room and boarding these kinds of criminals. violent crimes- no bail and rot in jail.

There are hundreds of thousands of people sitting in jail right now who haven't been convicted of a crime because they are poor and cannot afford cash bail. These folks can often sit in jail for months and years before their case is heard. Bail is not designed to punish people; like 10:02am said above, it is to ensure defendants appear in court. Our country in general and states like Mississippi and Louisiana in particular have the highest incarceration rates in the world, but it's never enough for folks like Kingfish who revel in harming the poor as much as possible and don't believe in "innocent until proven guilty", only in throwing as many people into jail as possible. The USA has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. Is it working?

I support bail reform.

zack new, nancy new, lattimar, and Dibiase are alll assigned to judge tommie greene. she releasees all of them ROR, which means no one has to post so much as a nickel to get out of jail.
ann McGrew and john davis are assigned to judge wooten. McGrew is required to post a 200,000$ bond and davis is required to post a 150,000$ bond.
please somebody explain the lack of consistency among the circuit judges when setting bail bonds.

Other than line the pockets of bail bondsmen, why should these people have to post bail, Kingfish? Are they flight risks? Do you not subscribe to the constitutional principle of innocent until proven guilty?

It's called grandstanding. Neither Judge gives one less damn but it all depends on which audience you want to play to...The judicial reformers who would initiate sweeping changes or the "downtrodden' masses who want to see the rich folks get the same kick in the ass. Your choice in Hinds County.

Judge reacts to public outrage over charges to unilaterally impose bail on non-violent offenders who pose little to no risk of flight.

Prosecutor adheres to his stated policy of not pushing for cash bail simply because of the public outrage over the charges and because of the wealth of these defendants thus treating "rich folks" like he wants "poor folks" to be treated.

Reasonable people could disagree about whether or not these particular defendants should be required to post bail and what the amount of that bail and conditions of release should be.

No reasonable person can think the imposition of high bail to satiate public outrage and punish the accused before trial is proper. I see zero cause for anger towards the prosecutor or anyone else.

The days of using exorbitant bail to punish defendants and keep them locked-up before trial need to end for all defendants and particularly for those accused of non-violent offenses.

Kingfish, why do you presume that those of us who care about this issue would feel bad about or regret the application of a no cash bail policy to these or any other defendants? Is it because you "heard" a clamor over these defendants not posting cash bail on The Facebook?

Jody Owens starting off with a bang. How much more egg can he get on his face? My guess is in the 5 dozen range.

@10:45
Only two words: Hinds county.

DAs office was concerned they would post bond with TANF money.

These defendants are not a danger to the community, but they are a flight risk. They are facing possible long jail sentences and they presumably have the financial means to flee. One option would be to puta GPS monitor on them at their expense. Set a curfew and limitations on where they can go. Then, if they don't adhere to the court's order, send them to Raymond.

Ditto @10:02 Maybe take their passports.

Here comes AFP applauding Tommi Green and her No Bail Machine. Tell me again why AFP try to convince people they are part of the conservative movement? More like a bunch oF LIBERAL NUT JOBS.

Not sure who KF is talking to in his rant, but I'm perfectly ok with the DHS 6 getting no Bail. And they would pay Bail with stolen money anyhow, so what's the point?

I can only hope Jody Owens is the next victim of a repeated crime by these no bail no jail criminals.

Tiered justice. Disgusting. Bail is fine in MS for everyone else.

Didn't the Rose Cochran photo crew all get $500,000 bail from Hon. Dollar Danks?

We have three newspapers in Lumumbaville, The Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi Today and the Jackson Free Press. The first two are Democrat mouth pieces, the third thinks democrats are too conservative. All three struggle.

Jackson Jambalaya is somewhat conservative is it is thriving.

Media today have the Henry Ford approach to selling Model-T Fords, "You can buy a Model T in any color as long as the color is black." Camille Paglia of the New York Times correctly stated that journalism is dead and has zero credibility and that death was inflicted by journalists.

I regret that I haven't followed this story on JJ. I do have a question. How does a washed up wannabe, drug addicted, former pro wrester rise to the level of Bureau Director in a large state agency with no education, experience, or credentials? Even with the obvious good ole boys' network at play this seems like a stretch. There must be something else. What?

Legally speaking, why did DA Owens allow the defendants to avoid posting bail?

Bail is a right under our constitution, except in a limited set of circumstances.

Bail’s purpose is not punishment, it’s to protect the community and ensure appearance in court.

Why WOULDN’T they be RoR’d? The crimes aren’t violent and all are tied to the community. If they were foreign nationals, maybe... but they’re all coming back to court, short of suicide.

Only the poor have to worry about going to jail because they can't post bail or no bail is required.

If your going to be a criminal be a white collar criminal. White collar criminals rarely go to jail and if they do it isn't for long.