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We Can’t End Mass Incarceration Without Ending Money Bail
Wealth should never decide a person’s freedom. Whether or not you are in jail should not depend on your ability to pay for your freedom. Yet that’s the way our current money bail system works. It is one of the most corrupt and broken parts of our justice system.Close to half a million people are in jail today awaiting trial, many of them incarcerated because […]
An Arkansas Town Agrees to Criminal Justice Reform to Ensure That the Poor Are Not Jailed
The city of Sherwood agrees to stop jailing people for debts they are too poor to pay. For years, the city of Sherwood, Arkansas, home to about 30,000 people, had a practice of jailing people who could not afford to pay court costs incurred from bounced checks. Thousands of Arkansans were locked up—sometimes after bouncing checks in small amounts—when they c […]
Behind Many ‘Mom and Pop’ Bail Bonds Shops Is a Huge Insurance Corporation Out to Profit From Misery
Every year, money bail boosts bail insurance corporations’ profits at the expense of millions of low-income people of color. Eleven years ago, San Diego, California, resident Melodie Henderson was arrested for assault after a minor altercation with a former coworker. Her bail was set at $50,000. This was before a judge ever laid eyes on her. Although she was […]