| "What
if we ended the injustice of bail?"
On any given
night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are
locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough
money to pay bail.
The sums
in question are often around $500: easy for some to pay,
impossible for others. This has real human consequences
-- people lose jobs, homes and lives, and it drives racial
disparities in the legal system. Robin Steinberg has a bold
idea to change this. In this powerful talk, she outlines
the plan for The Bail Project -- an unprecedented national
revolving bail fund to fight mass incarceration. (14:25)
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