Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime.
Tracing the historical antecedents of the US Bail system, with particular attention to the failures of Bail reform efforts in the mid to late twentieth century, the authors descri.
Punishing Poverty examines how the current System of Pretrial release detains hundreds of thousands of defendants awaiting trial.
Instead, they have been accused of a crime and cannot afford to post the Bail amount to guarantee their freedom until trial.
Most people in jail have not been convicted of a crime