If you are poor, ill or addicted, don’t worry. We can warehouse you almost indefinitely and you’ll never have to worry.
From a new report by the Vera Institute of Justice:
“Local jails, which exist in nearly every town and city in America, are built to hold people deemed too dangerous to release pending trial or at high risk of flight. This, however, is no longer primarily what jails do or whom they hold, as people too poor to post bail languish there and racial disparities disproportionately impact communities of color. This report reviews existing research and data to take a deeper look at our nation’s misuse of local jails and to determine how we arrived at this point.”
Read More: Incarceration’s Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America | Vera Institute of Justice.
