Public safetyFinding
New Hampshire should make it easier for judges to hold people charged with violent crimes until trial.
Judges decide whether people charged with crimes are released before trial and on what conditions. This would widen the cases in which a defendant charged with a violent crime can be held in jail until trial.
Kelly Ayotte
The broken bail law was a failed social experiment that created a revolving door for violent criminals in our state. Today, we slammed that revolving door shut.
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