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The Price of Freedom: Cash Bail and Pretrial Detention
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Jan 31, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
When Flo was arrested in 2016, he did not expect to be wrapped into the predatory commercial bail industry. $7,500: that was the amount the judge set for his pretrial release. “$7,500 might as well have been a million dollars to me.” As a result, Flo spent two months in jail even though he was legally innocent.
Half a million Americans are in pretrial detention at any given moment, and more than 60% of them are there because they can’t afford bail. In theory, bail is supposed to be one way out of jail. So how did it become a way to trap so many people in, even when they're still legally presumed innocent?
Learn more about the Pretrial Fairness Act, and support the Coalition to End Money Bond.
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Half a million Americans are in pretrial detention at any given moment, and more than 60% of them are there because they can’t afford bail. In theory, bail is supposed to be one way out of jail. So how did it become a way to trap so many people in, even when they're still legally presumed innocent?
Learn more about the Pretrial Fairness Act, and support the Coalition to End Money Bond.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Released:
Jan 31, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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