"Justice in America" is a podcast of which you may not be aware. It is hosted by Josie Duffy Rice, president of The Appeal, along with guest hosts Darnell Moore, Donovan X. Ramsey, Derecka Purnell, and Zak Cheney Rice. Each episode explains a new criminal justice issue and features conversations with experts and advocates. Some of the topics covered include: "The Privatization of Prisons," "School to Prison Pipeline," and "Probation and Parole."
Here are quotes from the transcript of their 1st Episode, "Justice for the Rich: Money Bail" [emphasis added]:
"Clint: And as a reminder, over sixty percent of the people currently in jail have not been convicted of any crime at all. Sixty percent.
"Josie: ...and with just over four percent of the world’s population, again, the United States has almost twenty percent of the world’s pretrial jail population.
"Clint: Exactly. Bail contributes to our mass incarceration problem, which is bad enough, but there’s more obviously. It’s not only excessive, its discriminatory. Our bail system is just one way that our criminal justice system discriminates against poor people. When setting bail, a judge is supposed to consider a defendant’s ability to pay, but that often just doesn’t happen at all. As a result, we have people sitting in jail for days, weeks, months, even years, simply because they can’t afford to pay bail.
"Josie: Yep. And in the meantime, they can lose their job, lose their housing, lose custody of their kids, and they haven’t even been convicted of a crime yet."
Link to full transcript: https://theappeal.org/justice-...j6oXBzBHrc0GLqaOj_DM
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