BAIL OUT the SOUTH: Baton Rouge

Letitia shares her experience being incarcerated pretrial and held on bail in Baton Rouge, LA.
BAIL OUT the SOUTH, with a focus on the Deep South, will double The Bail Project’s reach in the southern United States. Pretrial detention stacks the odds against any person accused of a crime, but it especially hurts people of color. Since people of color are held on bail at higher rates, and those that are held pretrial are more likely to plead guilty, bail has a compounding effect on people of color and their presence in the prison-industrial complex.
At its heart, the cash bail crisis is a human story.
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