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Cash bail / waiting times in jail for non-violent, pretrial defendants could improve

By Hicbd
Fri Aug 31 2018 1:50 am

"American taxpayers spend 14 billion dollars annually holding people in jail cells who haven't been convicted of anything...What's perhaps more confounding is it doesn't make us any safer. Research is clear that holding somebody in jail makes you significantly more likely to commit a crime when you get out than if you had been free all along."

URL:
https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_steinberg_what_if_we_ended_the_injustice_of_bail#t-7022
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/29/california-abolish-cash-bail-reformers-unhappy-219618
https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/03/waiting-for-justice/

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Categories:
Prisons Crime / Theft U.S. Poverty U.S. Criminal Justice System U.S. Prisons Pretrial Detention U.S. State Government Prison Bail

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