Fear still fuels the bail reform debate, but new data from Illinois show that holding on to cash bail may make communities less safe.
Republicans across the country campaigned on crime. Nowhere did it resonate more than in New York.
Cash bail creates a two-tier justice system where freedom belongs to those who can afford it. For poor people, Illinois’s new bail reform bill is a step toward justice. For melodramatic conservatives drowning in propaganda, it’s right out of a horror film.
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