Reforming the cash bail system benefits both the accused and taxpayers
Sara E. Murphy, For Beacon Magazine
Published
7:21 am UTC Feb. 10, 2021
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A fundamental tenet of the American criminal justice system is its presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty, yet 74 percent of people in U.S. jails have not been convicted of a crime, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. That’s more than 555,000 people on any given day whose freedom has been revoked without a trial.