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Paperback Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System Book

ISBN: 0520298314

ISBN13: 9780520298316

Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System

Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime. Instead, they have been accused of a crime and cannot afford to post the bail amount to guarantee their freedom until trial. Punishing Poverty examines how the current system of pretrial release detains hundreds of thousands of defendants awaiting trial. Tracing the historical antecedents of the US bail system, with particular attention to the failures of bail reform efforts in the mid...

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