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    LolaFalanasLongAssLegsAnne Branigin
    3/08/19 2:49pm

    In fiscal year 2017 alone, more than 12,000 New York City families relinquished $16 to $27 millionto the private bail bonds industry. Families seeking bail know that the consequences of a loved one being jailed, for even a few days, can be long-lasting and even fatal — causing family care crises, job loss and other long-term financial loss.

    Earlier this summer, Gov. Cuomo stood in front of 60,000 concert-goers in Central Park at the Global Citizen Festival and promised to end cash bail. He followed his announcement with a tweetsaying: “Cash bail means that if you’re rich, you get to walk and if you’re poor, and you can’t make bail, you sit in jail. That isn’t justice. We’re going to end the cash bail system once and for all.”

    https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-reform-cash-bail-without-delay-20181121-story.html

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      dudebraLolaFalanasLongAssLegs
      3/09/19 4:53pm

      One of my neighbors issues bail bonds. This is not a nice or good person who I try to avoid at all costs.

      Also, Cuomo has to go!

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      LolaFalanasLongAssLegsdudebra
      3/09/19 7:33pm

      We’ll see how he slithers through this one.

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    O's, Poes and BohsAnne Branigin
    3/08/19 3:29pm

    Cash bail is such an unjust system. Either someone can be released or they can’t. The cash bail system feeds only predatory bail bondsmen, and it’s a tax on the poor and it does nothing to reduce recidivism. DC mostly got rid of cash bail in the 1990s. In 2017, 94 percent of arrestees were released without cash bail. Of those, 88 percent made all their court appearances, and 86 percent weren’t rearrested for any crime in that time, and of the people who were rearrested, less than 2 percent were rearrested for a violent crime.

    https://www.npr.org/2018/09/02/644085158/what-changed-after-d-c-ended-cash-bail

    https://www.marketplace.org/2016/10/21/wealth-poverty/washington-dc-has-figured-out-way-around-money-bail

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    pheghAnne Branigin
    3/08/19 3:04pm

    The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund is a good place to donate a few bucks.

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