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Pretrial incarceration disrupts access to education programs & ultimately makes it harder for people to meet educational & career goals.
Illinois needs to pass the Pretrial Fairness Act and #EndMoneyBail today! #PretrialFairnessNow! | #Twill
Illinois needs to pass the Pretrial Fairness Act and #EndMoneyBail today! #PretrialFairnessNow! | #Twill
On any given day, over 700,000 people are caged in US jails. Most have not been convicted of a crime and are only being incarcerated because they can't afford to pay their money bail. | #PretrialFairnessNOW #twill
"The open secret is that...bail is the grease that keeps the gears of the overburdened system turning. Faced with the prospect of going to jail for want of bail, many people accept plea deals instead, sometimes at their arraignments" https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/the-bail-trap.html #PretrialFairnessNOW
A staggering 11 million people churn through jails each year. Most are not convicted and are caged because they cannot afford to pay a money bail. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2015/08/14/jailsmatter/ | #PretrialFairnessNOW #twill
The number of women incarcerated in local jails in the United States has increased 14-fold since 1970. Nearly 80% of these women in jail are mothers, & most are single parents. | #PretrialFairnessNOW #twill
Like the number of people in prison, the number of people in local jails has more than tripled since the 1980s. In the last 15 years, 99 percent of that jail population growth has come from locking up people who are awaiting trial. | #PretrialFairnessNOW #twill
