1399: Bail Reform | Skeptical Sunday

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Really what this is. You pay money, you get out of jail? I don't know. In theory, we have a criminal justice system built on one simple idea. Innocent until proven guilty. Very noble, very constitutional. Fireworks, bald eagle. Toby Keith somehow starts playing. And yet at this very moment About five hundred thousand legally innocent people are sitting in jail waiting for trial. Right, because present till

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