Epi. 108: Bail denied: Turning a wealth-based system into a risk-based system

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In many states, dangerous defendants or those who pose as flight risks can buy their way out of jail before trial if they have access to the money required to post bail -- while large numbers of poorer defendants who are neither dangerous nor flight risks are locked up simply for lack of money. New Mexico Chief Justice Charles Daniels discusses how several state court systems are reforming this system of pre-trial justice, or injustice, as many are calling it.

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