Reports
For the Safety of the Community: Court Watching in Prince George’s County, MD
January 2024
In-Custody Deaths in Ten Maryland Detention Centers, 2008-2019, August 2023
Inside Prince George’s County Bond Hearings: Analysis, Findings, & Recommendations
March 2023. Movement Lawyering Clinic, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, Howard University School of Law
Robert Frazier et al v. Prince George’s County et al
This open federal lawsuit describes how hundreds of people are jailed without trial for long periods in Prince George’s County in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and Maryland court rules.
July 19, 2022. Filed by the Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Civil Rights Corps, and the WilmerHale law firm, with information from Courtwatch PG.
Supplement 1: Class Action July 19, 2022.
Supplement 2: In Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction October 10, 2022.
Supplement 3: County’s Response to Motion to Dismiss October 10, 2022.
Supplement 4: Judge’s Opinion and Order on the Motion to Dismiss January 24, 2023.
Supplement 5: PG County Status Report April 28, 2023
5b. Revised OPS Procedures Manual
5d. Responses to the Judge’s Questions (Supplement 4, Appendix A)
Supplement 6: Plaintiffs’ Response to the PG County Status Report May 15, 2023
OPS Account of Levels of Supervision and the Risk Scoring Instrument,
submitted to the federal court on September 26, 2022
Trapped in Pretrial: Prince George’s County and the Need for Meaningful Bail Reform
Fall 2022. Life After Release and Courtwatch PG
Findings from Courtwatch PG’s Analysis of Release Timelines from the Office of Pretrial Services
July 18, 2022. Courtwatch PG
The Civil Rights Implications of Cash Bail
January, 2022. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Custodial Sanctions and Reoffending: A Meta-Analytic Review
September 22, 2021. Crime and Justice
Accountability Letter to Prince George’s County’s Chief Judges
December 23, 2020. Courtwatch PG
Inside Prince George’s County Bond Hearings: Analysis, Findings, & Recommendations
December 9, 2020. Movement Lawyering Clinic, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, Howard University School of Law
An extensive report on active racism in the Prince George’s County Police Department, in support of a lawsuit that the county later settled.
August 28, 2020. Michael E. Graham, former Assistant Sheriff, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
May 21, 2020
The Ongoing Fight Against Oppressive Bail
March 12, 2020. Legal Data & Design Clinic
The Punishment Bureaucracy: How to Think about Criminal Justice Reform
March 28, 2019. Yale Law Journal
Bail Reform: A Practical Guide Based on Research and Experience
March 12,2019. National Task Force on Fines, Fees, and Bail Practices
Principles of Pretrial Release: Reforming Bail without Repeating Its Harms
Fall 2018. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Advancing Bail Reform in Maryland: Progress and Possibilities
February 27, 2018. Baltimore City and Prince George’s County Branches of the NAACP
December, 2017.
Final Report of the Governor’s Commission to Reform Maryland’s Pretrial System
December 19, 2014.
Report of the Pretrial Release Project Advisory Committee
October 11, 2001. Maryland Judiciary
Pulitzer Prize winning series on rape and sexual assault in the Prince George’s County Jail
September 26-28, 1982. Washington Post
Law and Legal Terms
Bail in the United States (Wikipedia)
ACLU: Know your rights: Stopped by police
Legal Information Institute: Stop and Frisk
Public Institutions
Maryland Association of Counties blog: Conduit Street
District Court in Upper Marlboro
Journalist’s Guide to Maryland’s Legal System (May 1, 2019)
Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office
Maryland Office of the Public Defender
Database of Maryland Attorneys
Prince George’s County Office of Pretrial Services
Compare: Anne Arundel County Pretrial Services Unit
Pretrial Services Programs (Wikipedia)
NAPSA Standards on Pretrial Release
Prince George’s County Department of Corrections Inmate Lookup
Prince George’s County Police Department
Other Websites of Interest
Penal Reform International: Pre-Trial Justice page
Silver Spring Justice Coalition