In this episode of the Everyday Injustice podcast, The Bail Project’s CEO David Gaspar discusses how cash bail criminalizes poverty, trauma, and mental illness while destabilizing families and communities. Drawing on his own incarceration and self-won appeal, he argues for shifting resources from pretrial detention to housing, treatment, and community-based solutions.
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Your support gives hope to the thousands of people still trapped in pretrial detention. We’ve supported more than 40,000 clients through free bail assistance and community-based support services like affordable housing and healthcare, and mental health services. You can help secure the freedom of thousands more.
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