Under The Arch, a podcast put out by our friends at ArchCity Defenders and Action St. Louis, sat down with The Bail Project’s Mike Milton and former TBP director of strategic partnerships Thomas Harvey to talk about pretrial incarceration in the city.
A new analysis by Prison Policy Initiative finds that people who are jailed have much higher rates of social, economic, and health problems that cannot and should not be addressed through incarceration.
This story details how difficult it can be for non-citizens to be free from federal custody even if they’re able to post bail. In the case of a man falsely accused of bringing meth into the U.S., posting bail would have sent him to ICE detention and put him on the path to deportation.
“In the early August raids on seven workplaces in Mississippi, authorities apparently used GPS location tracking information to verify that people who working in certain places did not have valid permits.”
