Preventive Detention: The Constitution and the Congress

Abstract

INTRODUCTION|The system of bail in the federal courts of the United States remained basically unchanged from its statutory origin in 1789 until the recent decade. Then, while reform by statute and judicial decision was pressing rapidly forward in other areas of federal criminal law enforcement, serious attention was also turned to the inadequacies of the federal bail system. In 1963, after reviewing federal bail practices, the Attorney General's Committee on Poverty and the Administration of Federal Criminal Justice concluded:...