Cash bail reform stirs debate between liberties and safety
Cash bail reform stirs debate between liberties and safety
(NewsNation) — Upwards of 400,000 Americans are currently held in what is called pretrial detention after their arrest.
In many of these cases, people in pretrial detention are offered the chance to pay bail. The purpose of cash bail is to provide a kind of guarantee that defendants will return to court for their trial, but this arrangement can also make it difficult for lower-income people to…
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