The First Pretrial Release Program Began in __________ with the Manhattan

Multiple Choice

The first pretrial release program began in __________ with the Manhattan Bail Project.This project was designed to assist judges in identifying defendants who were eligible to be released on their own recognizance (ROR) .Modeled after the recognizance programs in Europe discussed in the previous section, this program became so successful that over the next 2 decades more than 200 cities had some version of pretrial release in place.

A) 1951
B) 1961
C) 1971
D) 1981