Sometimes Bad does Good, sometimes Good does Evil. That is because Bad is Good, in the wrong place.
Corporate opportunists have hijacked
public authority and created an
unnecessary and largely unaccountable
$2 billion bail industry that profits from
trapping people both inside and out of jail,
often for long after their charges with the
courts have been resolved. It may seem
paradoxical to learn that bail—a process
meant to guarantee freedom and fairness
in the criminal justice system for people
who have not been convicted of a crime—
is being used by corporations in this way.
Yet it happens daily nationwide, typically
with little resistance from the politicians,
judges, and prosecutors sworn to protect
public rights.
The for-profit bail industry has reinforced
and profited from the racially biased
nature of our criminal justice system,
which routinely targets low-income people,
Black people, and other people of color for
reasons that have nothing to do with their
guilt or innocence.
This report exposes how the industry
works, the corporations and enablers in
government that are behind it, who they
impact and the extent of their damage,
the inherent problems with allowing a
for-profit industry to hold the key to the
jailhouse gates, and why this practice of
for-profit money bail must end
https://www.aclu.org/wp-content/uploads/legal-documents/059_bail_report_2_1.pdf