Data presented at Thursday’s Lancaster County Prison Board meeting gave, for the first time, a snapshot view of who was being held in the prison and why on one day
It’s an oversimplification to say that a district judge set bail at $5,000 for a man accused of shoplifting $28, according to Lancaster County’s president judge.
Lancaster County has a bail problem. And John Choma — who died following his imprisonment — was in jail because of a $5,000 bail set on a case accusing him