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Unlike my parents. you rambling about xfinity again? you re so cute when you get excited. anyways. i ve got their app right here, i can troubleshoot. i can schedule a time for them to call me back, it s great! you have our number programmed in? ya i don t even know your phone anymore. excuse me?! what? i don t know your phone number. aw well. he doesn t know our phone number! you have our fax number, obviously. today s xfinity service. simple. easy. awesome. i ll pass. last night we told you about the $2 billion bail bond industry and how it profits out of poor, low risk defendants. tonight, a look at how this impacts families for years after an arrest and how those families are fighting back. drew griffin is outfront. in baltimore s poorer neighborhoods, it can take just one arrest to send a family ....
Top 2020 democrats are promising a huge change to the criminal justice system, joe biden, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders among those saying they want to get rid of cash bail which they say disproportionally hurts poor low risk defendants. bernie sanders quote no one should be sitting in jail because they are poor. cash bail must be abolished. but a new cnn investigation finding out just how tough it could be to make that happen. drew griffin is outfront. $2 billion is roughly how much money the bail bond business reportedly takes in cross the country every year. who pays? underprivileged people. under arrest, who find themselves facing a decision. sit in jail for months to await trial or pay a bail bondsman to get them out. most people who are arrested are actually low income or almost no income individuals. and when we put a ran some on ....