Florida clears two men after 42 years in prison for a murder they didn't commit https://t.co/BF3FF9a4rA pic.twitter.com/mjDapYbqdL
— CNN (@CNN) March 29, 2019
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What a case, what a story: our new @theappeal story this week shows just how systematic abuses and suicides are in jails, with little accountability or visibility for them: https://t.co/9V0udcGyrU https://t.co/j0xv3tcHdB
— Taniel (@Taniel) March 23, 2019
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A federal prisons official used prison labor for work on his church in Texas. Prisoners were paid 49 cents per hour plus an overall $30 bonus for a total of five eight hour work days at the church. The state’s minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. https://t.co/JvbN4Dyg6r
— nyc law grrrl (@nyclawgrrrl) March 12, 2019
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Repeat: Kalief Browder was locked up *pretrial* on $3500 bail he couldn’t afford for stealing a backpack *for longer than Manafort will now serve in prison* including time he already has in. Kalief was innocent. He later committed suicide. https://t.co/vE82ro6u1X
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) March 8, 2019
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It costs the US $38 million per day or $160 billion per year to detain people pre-trial.
— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 1, 2019
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Approximately 68% of people held in jail prior to trial are charged with non-violent crimes, such as drug, property, or public order crimes. Even crimes defined as violent, such as burglary, may not involve any actual use of violence.
— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 1, 2019
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Cash bail sets up a two-tier justice system – one for the rich & one for the poor. While some presidential candidates have proposed ending cash bail, The Justice Collaborative's End Money Bail Act represents so much more than people have imagined possible. https://t.co/D7JZ0y5FKi
— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 1, 2019