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Unfortunately, the lessons we learned and shared in 1961 have not stuck. As a new report from Vera released this month makes clear, jail incarceration remains all too common and, for the most part, unnecessary. On any given day in the United States, there are 731,000 people sitting in more than 3,000 jails. burbank bail bonds

With strong bipartisan support for sentencing reform and re-entry supports for people leaving prison—making strange bedfellows of the likes of the Koch brothers and the ACLU—this is perhaps our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to effect comprehensive and enduring criminal justice reform. But to be successful, we need start at the beginning, at incarceration’s front door—our local jails. bail hotline los angeles, los angeles county inmate information Although jails serve an important function in local justice systems—to hold people deemed too dangerous to release pending trial or at high risk of flight—this is no longer primarily what jails do or whom they hold. Three out of five people in jail have not been convicted of any crime and are simply too poor to post even low bail to get out while their cases are being processed. Nearly 75% of both pretrial detainees and sentenced offenders are in jail for nonviolent traffic, property, drug, or public order offenses. aladin bail bonds

And underlying the behavior that lands many people in jail in the first place, there is often a history of substance abuse, mental illness, poverty, failure in school, and homelessness. Moreover, jailing practices have had a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Nationally, African Americans are jailed at almost four times the rate of white Americans. carson bail bonds, a and a bail bonds