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Jail task force urges overhaul of Michigan bail system

by Associated Press
| January 14, 2020 8:35 AM

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan should reclassify many traffic offenses as civil infractions, release more defendants before trial without requiring them to pay money, consider alternatives to incarceration and take other steps to reduce jail populations that tripled in under 40 years, a task force said Tuesday.

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