“In addition to the 1.6 million people incarcerated in federal and state prisons, there are 646,000 people locked up in more than 3,000 local jails throughout the U.S. Seventy percent of these people in local jails are being held pretrial — meaning they have not yet been convicted of a crime and are legally presumed … Continue reading Detaining the Poor: How Money Bail Perpetuates an Endless Cycle of Poverty and Jail Time