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Do Cash Bails Punish The Poor? Making Sense Of Baton Rouge, St. Paul And Dallas Shootings


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Three out of five people who are arrested are not able to post bail, which means they are incarcerated, sometime for months, until their cases come to trial or are resolved. What are the standards for setting the amount of bail, and do those standards disadvantage the poor? Cherise Fanno Burdeen, the executive director of the Pretrial Justice Institute, and Tara Huffman, the director of Open Society Institute-Baltimore Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program join Tom to talk about making bail
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Maryland Morning Podcast on WYPRBy Kyle Leslie