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  1. New Film Exposes Deadly Houston Jail and “Unconstitutional” System of Cash Bail

    At least 15 people have died in pretrial detention just this year at Texas’s notorious Harris County Jail.

    murica.website/2025/10/new-fil

  2. Trump Bashes Cashless Bail, Says It Leads to More Crime. Studies Say Otherwise.

    Real-world examples and case studies reveal that cashless bail doesn’t result in higher crime rates.

    murica.website/2025/07/trump-b

  3. Republicans told us this law would make #Illinois a violent nightmare. Instead it just made the justice system more fair to poor people and less kind to violent rich bastards. #CashBail
    pocket.co/share/a2b4289d-b898-

  4. “Amid a national backlash against criminal justice reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected.” #Illinois #Chicago #CashBail #JBPritzker thenation.com/article/society/

  5. #Illinois Has Put an End to the #Injustice of #CashBail

    Amid a national backlash against #criminaljustice #reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected.

    thenation.com/article/society/

  6. @anna

    #CashBail for petty crimes has a long tradition in the #US. One of many “Catch-22s” in our criminal justice system. Another is fining a person for not paying a fine they cannot afford. We have work to do but there is slow progress. ✊

  7. The Effects of #CashBail on #Crime and Court Appearances

    Research suggests that curtailing the use of monetary release conditions among low-risk defendants would not result in dramatic drops in court attendance or increased risk of reoffending.

    reason.org/policy-brief/the-ef
    #law #crime #bailreform #cjreform #criminaljusticereform

  8. #Illinois is about to overhaul the system that upended Ross’ life. Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act, which abolishes #cashbail as a condition of pretrial release, will take effect Sept. 18, making Illinois the first state to end cash bail and a testing ground for whether — and how — it works on a large scale.

    https://apnews.com/article/illinois-criminal-justice-cash-bail-reform-b8aac667b7d3016e12ea64a70964bf55
  9. CW: Long thread/9

    #5yrsago Thanks to a Chinese and Korean fad, California’s wild #succulents are being poached and smuggled to Asia scmp.com/magazines/post-magazi

    #5yrsago The sheriffs who cheered #Trump’s attack on the press have long histories of shady dealings, revealed by the press theguardian.com/us-news/2018/s

    #5yrsago Good news: California ends #CashBail! Bad news: It’s been replaced with a black-box #algorithm qz.com/1375820/california-just

    9/

  10. #DonaldTrump and 18 co-defendants surrendered in #Georgia with varying bail amounts. An expert discusses the U.S. #CashBail system, highlighting its aim to ensure court appearances but criticising its impact on the poor and its racial disparities.

    pmp-magazine.com/2023/08/26/tr

  11. CW: Cash Bail

    No, Jake Tapper, the abolition of #cashBail is not at fault for every crime that has taken place since its inception. No correlation between abolishing cash bail and higher crime rates has been uncovered by research.

    Indeed, studies have shown that pretrial #incarceration—that is, the jailing of individuals not convicted of any crime — leads to higher #unemployment and greater #recidivism after release. And, of course, pretrial detention is a major contributor to #overincarceration.

    Known #seditionist, fraudster, and sex criminal DJ Trump walks around free after 4 indictments. Meanwhile, poor Black defendants accused of minor crimes such as possession spend months, even years, behind bars awaiting trial.

    If you don't like the abolition of cash bail, take it up with the Founders. The Eighth Amendment provides that defendants will not be burdened with "excessive #bail"—a provision we've steadfastly ignored for far too long.

  12. @maxkennerly
    A lot of people (let's call them "Republicans") think abolishing #CashBail means abolishing ALL bail and simply letting people go after they're arrested (notice they never think it means "*deny* bail".)

    The people working to end Cash Bail need to do a better of job of explaining what exactly that means.

  13. The Illinois state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a state law ending cash bail and ordered implementation in mid-September.

    Who was fighting against this?

    #cashbail

  14. Last year’s #cashbail amendment from lawmakers put #Ohio’s entire pretrial release system in jeopardy
    ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/05
    Lawmakers have a fix ready as they face a July 1 deadline, though advocates say broader reform still needed beyond status quo

  15. "A superior court judge Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against Los Angeles County’s practice of requiring cash bail from jailed people who have yet to be arraigned, dealing a major blow to a system long criticized as favoring the wealthy and doing little to make the public safer."

    H/T @twrling

    laist.com/news/criminal-justic

    #LosAngeles #LA #LosAngelesCounty #LACounty #Bail #CashBail #PublicSafety #SuperiorCourt #Jails

  16. Young men have died in jail waiting for trial for petty crimes (stealing a backpack!) because they couldn’t make bail but Crypto-Bro out on $250M bond, hanging at his parents house while awaiting trial for stealing BILLIONS, even though we know he’s a flight risk.
    is inhumane. It doesn’t make the country safer or save taxpayer money. The thing it seems specifically designed to do is screw the poor while protecting the rich.
    apple.news/AW_BcfX3pTRyG-MGZJf

  17. Illinois will be the first state to eliminate #CashBail. Here’s why women led the push for reform.

    19thnews.org/2022/12/illinois-

  18. @JamesGleick

    #CashBail is an abomination and should be abolished. Do some real (and transparent) risk assessment to determine pre-trial release. And track results.

    #bail #bailreform

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