Cash bail system drives mass incarceration of the poor – lawsuit against Detroit — RT USA News

Detroit’s bail system disproportionately harms poor defendants and violates their constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU in that city, where a third of the population lives below the poverty line. The local branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the class-action suit on Sunday, claiming the bail process in […]

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