How the Army handled two cases of pretrial confinement

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Military commanders have the energy to detain service members forward of trial by means of a course of generally known as pretrial confinement. Commanders take into account whether or not the suspect could flee or reoffend and if much less extreme restrictions can maintain the individual out of hassle. An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune into the Army’s use of pretrial confinement discovered that troopers who have been detained weren’t at all times the ones accused of the most severe crimes.

Below are examples of how a soldier accused of sexual assault and one other accused of drug offenses have been handled otherwise.

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