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  • Bond changes already having tangible impact

    Eamon Scarborough|Updated Jul 8, 2017

    Changes to statewide bonding procedures allowing certain defendants to be released without bail came into effect July 1. While the new system is young, it has already garnered a strong reaction. Senate Joint Resolution 1, approved in the November 2016 election, gave arrested individuals that meet certain criteria the chance to be released without bond, according to Roosevelt County Detention Center Administrator Justin Porter. “Now the courts will have a designee that will review a person’s file whenever they’ve been arres...