National Consumer Law Center, ACLU & Color of Change Praise Senate Inquiry Into Predatory Bail Industry Practices
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The companies contacted yesterday were featured in a report (https://www.aclu.org/report/selling-our-freedom-how-insurance-corporations-have-taken-over-our-bail-system) released last year by the
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"Commercial bail imposes oppressive financial costs on heavily-policed low-income communities, especially communities of color.
"Commercial bail is a massive industry that had been given free rein to engage in violent exploitation of brown, Black, and cash poor people with little to no oversight or regulation. We can no longer allow the most fundamental questions of justice - who is allowed freedom and whose rights must be respected - to be made by private industry. We commend Sens. Booker and Brown's attempt to hold them accountable."
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