The State of Justice Reform 2018
The State of Bail
Almost two-thirds of the approximately 730,000 people incarcerated in U.S. jails on any given day have not been convicted of a crime.[footnote]Zhen Zeng, Jail Inmates in 2016 (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2018), 2 & 4.[/footnote] Many simply can’t afford to pay their money [term]bail[/term]—even when set at relatively modest am
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