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Pretrial Policies Drive Jail Growth

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Pretrial Policies Drive Jail Growth

Description (Dublin Core)

This Twitter screenshot of a graph illustrating the number of people in the nations jails waiting for trial far outweighs the number of people who have been convicted of a crime. The covid crisis has exposed the make up of the jail population and has also brought to light the reason so many people are awaiting trial in jail. They are awaiting trial in jail, more often than not, because they cannot afford to pay bail to be released. While the pandemic, like all disasters, effects people of color and low income disproportionately, it has also shed a light on the inequity of the bail system and caused people to wonder if those in the nation's jails and prisons deserve to risk dying from the virus.
bail, incarceration, jail, prison, inequality

Date (Dublin Core)

June 29, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Prison Policy Initiative

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Chris Twing

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Tipo (Dublin Core)

screenshot

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Twitter

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Crime
English Social Issues
English Race & Ethnicity

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

bail
incarceration
jail
prison
inequality
#lockedupwithcovid

Collection (Dublin Core)

Incarceration
Social Justice

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

06/30/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/19/2020
08/02/2022
10/08/2024

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This item was submitted on June 30, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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