The Price of Freedom: Cash Bail and Pretrial Detention

When Flo was arrested in 2016, he did not expect to be wrapped into the predatory 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Price of Freedom: Cash Bail and Pretrial Detention is an episode from Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America by Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative.

This episode is 30:05 long.

This episode was published on Jan 31, 2024.

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