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End wealth-based detention through individualized hearings, counsel, recorded reasons, prompt appeal, and a presumption of release; restore sentencing discretion and fund accountable rehabilitation.
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Jul 12, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Republican national leadership has increasingly opposed jurisdictions that eliminate cash bail. Executive Order 14342 directs agencies to identify federal funds that might be withheld from such jurisdictions, and H.R. 6175 proposes a statutory funding prohibition. Democratic-led Illinois abolished money bond through its Pretrial Fairness Act while retaining judicial detention for defined risks and individualized findings. The major-party dispute often collapses release into a choice between money bond and public safety.
The Innovation Party rejects that frame. Money does not prove safety. Automatic release does not answer every risk. The party combines a presumption of release with individualized detention hearings, counsel, a demanding burden of proof, least-restrictive conditions, written reasons, appeal, victim protection, and public performance data. Risk tools remain advisory to that process.
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