Clean Slate Initiative
There is only so much a statistic can show about the criminal justice system, and how to change it for the better. Many are well aware, and have been for years, of its racial biases, of its great financial costs to the government, of its deep reach into the lives of a huge proportion of Americans and their families.
Think Of Us
In one of last week’s most read guest essays in the New York Times, Sixto Cancel shares his experience growing up in foster care and calls on policymakers to listen to what people with lived experience in child welfare say needs to change, including expanding kinship care and eliminating institutional placements.
The Bail Project
The cash bail system in the United States is broken, the Bail Project is changing that.
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TED-Ed explores the history of America's bail system
Since September, judges in Compton have received several bail-reduction requests as part of a new collaboration among UCLA law students, the Los Angeles County public defender’s office and The Bail Project.
Rasha Almulaiki is at work inside Detroit's Division II Wayne County Jail, trying to select people with the right criteria to bail out. She is not a bail bondsman. Rather, she's a "bail disrupter" — the only one in Detroit.
In conversation with TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi, Robin Steinberg shares how her nonprofit The Bail Project -- which uses a revolving fund to post bail for those who can't afford it -- is scaling up their efforts across the country and rolling out a new community-based model to fight mass incarceration.
More and more women are being incarcerated in the US — before they’ve been found guilty of crimes. Here’s how the bail system hits women and what can be done.
Bail reform is hot, says Robin Steinberg. From New Jersey to California, and Rand Paul to Bernie Sanders, there is widespread agreement that the cash bail system is broken. But while there is consensus about the problem, there are divisions about the solutions.
We’ll send you news and updates on how ideas are taking shape.
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