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If you can't pay bail, aren't you unfairly incarcerated?

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Oct 20, 2016

Lots of people think so. And the money bail system is becoming increasingly controversial.

The U.S. Department of Justice has argued that fixed money bail for poor people violates their 14th amendment constitutional right to equal protection under the law.

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