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Our Experts
Our experts have deep experience collaborating with national, state, and local communities to promote legal and research-based pretrial justice.
Reporter Resources
Use these resources to provide your audiences with more explanation, context, multi-sourced stories, and analysis to differentiate claims and evidence.
To serve as the public’s watchdog, reporters must understand how pretrial systems work and fundamental principles like the presumption of innocence and due process.
Using and validating data is critical to understanding pretrial systems outcomes and their impacts on communities.
Use APPR’s glossary to help you explain pretrial words and terms to your audience.
A resource to encourage style changes in newsrooms.
A summary of key federal legal principles around pretrial release and detention decisions.
Additional Resources
Take a deeper look at pretrial justice issues.
Do the hearings you report on meet constitutional principles and other fundamental legal principles?
Money bonds are used to incentivize court attendance and arrest-free behavior when a person is released and to detain pretrial. The research shows it is not effective at either.
Many pretrial practices—even ones shown to be ineffective—are deeply embedded culturally. Understand the current research to shine a light on the policies and practices used by the systems you cover.
A Roadmap for Pretrial Advancement
The Roadmap is an easy-to-read overview that can help reporters and editors better understand the pretrial policies and practices that are supported by evidence and consistent with foundational legal principles. It also highlights questions that could be asked of justice system stakeholders. To discuss any part of the Roadmap, request an interview using the form below.
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Read APPR’s ideas, viewpoints, and approaches to advancing pretrial justice.
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