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Reducing Unnecessary Detention--A Goal or Result of Pretrial Services?

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Volume 65 Number 3
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The author describes external factors and traditional practices inhibiting the reduction of unnecessary pretrial detention. He gives a history of recent efforts to grapple with this issue, and offers a series of suggestions to determine in a consistent way what exactly constitutes "necessary" versus "unnecessary" detention.