Item
Pretrial Policies Drive Jail Growth
Title (Dublin Core)
Pretrial Policies Drive Jail Growth
Description (Dublin Core)
This Twitter screenshot of a graph illustrating the number of people in the nations jails waiting for trial far outweighs the number of people who have been convicted of a crime. The covid crisis has exposed the make up of the jail population and has also brought to light the reason so many people are awaiting trial in jail. They are awaiting trial in jail, more often than not, because they cannot afford to pay bail to be released. While the pandemic, like all disasters, effects people of color and low income disproportionately, it has also shed a light on the inequity of the bail system and caused people to wonder if those in the nation's jails and prisons deserve to risk dying from the virus.
bail, incarceration, jail, prison, inequality
Date (Dublin Core)
June 29, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Prison Policy Initiative
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Chris Twing
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
screenshot
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Twitter
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Crime
English
Social Issues
English
Race & Ethnicity
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
bail
incarceration
jail
prison
inequality
#lockedupwithcovid
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Social Justice
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/30/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/19/2020
08/02/2022
10/08/2024
This item was submitted on June 30, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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