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Do Cash Bails Punish The Poor? Making Sense Of Baton Rouge, St. Paul And Dallas Shootings

David Y. Lee

Three out of five people who are arrested are not able to post bail, which means they are incarcerated, sometime for months, until their cases come to trial or are resolved. What are the standards for setting the amount of bail, and do those standards disadvantage the poor? Cherise Fanno Burdeen, the executive director of the Pretrial Justice Institute, and Tara Huffman, the director of Open Society Institute-BaltimoreCriminal and Juvenile Justice Program join Tom to talk about making bail safer, fairer, and more effective. They also discuss #unconvicted,a photography exhibition organized by OSI-Baltimore the PreTrial Justice Institute that spotlights the plight of pretrial detainees. 

 
In the light of events in Baton Rouge, St. Paul and Dallas  how has the conversation about police misconduct changed? Dr. Lester Spence, from Johns Hopkins University, andDr. EddieGlaude from Princeton discuss how we got this point and the way forward.  
 
Plus, theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck on the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s  production of The Three Musketeers.

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