#5yrsago Thanks to a Chinese and Korean fad, California’s wild #succulents are being poached and smuggled to Asia https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2163157/californias-succulent-smugglers-plant-poachers

#5yrsago The sheriffs who cheered #Trump’s attack on the press have long histories of shady dealings, revealed by the press https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/08/sheriffs-donald-trump-media-scrutiny

#5yrsago Good news: California ends #CashBail! Bad news: It’s been replaced with a black-box #algorithm https://qz.com/1375820/california-just-replaced-cash-bail-with-algorithms

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@maxkennerly
A lot of people (let's call them "Republicans") think abolishing #CashBail means abolishing ALL bail and simply letting people go after they're arrested (notice they never think it means "*deny* bail".)

The people working to end Cash Bail need to do a better of job of explaining what exactly that means.

💥BOOM💥

Illinois Supreme Court rules in favor of ending the state's #CashBail system #BlackMastodon #MassIncarceration #13thAmendment

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/18/1188349005/illinois-ends-cash-bail-system-state-supreme-court

Illinois Supreme Court rules cash bail can be eliminated

"The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a state law ending cash bail, ordering implementation in mid-September."

#CashBail #Illinois
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-supreme-court-to-rule-on-safe-t-act-ending-cash-bail/

@VeryBadLlama Or at the very least ban #CashBail, #JailForUnpaidFines and #ForcedLabour as well as #ConvictLeasing as #Slavery per #Circular3591?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_leasing
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Circular_No._3591

@salad_bar_breath #CashBail in and of itself is just bs per very concept and basically a #PoorPenalty!

Last year’s #cashbail amendment from lawmakers put #Ohio’s entire pretrial release system in jeopardy
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/05/23/last-years-cash-bail-amendment-from-lawmakers-put-ohios-entire-pretrial-release-system-in-jeopardy/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=fe53f20d-6c10-4384-99cb-eb217143d66e
Lawmakers have a fix ready as they face a July 1 deadline, though advocates say broader reform still needed beyond status quo

@alienskyler Espechally when doing so is just a #PoorTax against people who can't afford medieval bs like #CashBail that should not exist:

Either a person is a danger or not, and letting them go should only depend if someone is an obvious danger.

If cops can't make that determination after ID'ing someone then they should not be allowed to arrest or even ID someone against their will at all...

"A superior court judge Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against Los Angeles County’s practice of requiring cash bail from jailed people who have yet to be arraigned, dealing a major blow to a system long criticized as favoring the wealthy and doing little to make the public safer."

H/T @twrling

https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/los-angeles-judge-issues-injunction-against-some-cash-bail-thousands-of-jailed-people-affected-yearly

#LosAngeles #LA #LosAngelesCounty #LACounty #Bail #CashBail #PublicSafety #SuperiorCourt #Jails

Young men have died in jail waiting for trial for petty crimes (stealing a backpack!) because they couldn’t make bail but Crypto-Bro #SBF out on $250M bond, hanging at his parents house while awaiting trial for stealing BILLIONS, even though we know he’s a flight risk.
#cashbail is inhumane. It doesn’t make the country safer or save taxpayer money. The thing it seems specifically designed to do is screw the poor while protecting the rich.
https://apple.news/AW_BcfX3pTRyG-MGZJfK38A

Illinois will be the first state to eliminate #CashBail. Here’s why women led the push for reform.

https://19thnews.org/2022/12/illinois-first-state-cash-bail-women-reform/

@futurebird #CashBail should be illegal and abolished!

@juddlegum

#Cashbail #CriminalJustice #News above or through the link

https://journa.host/@juddlegum/109559375327100009

#Cashbail #CriminalJustice #News above or through the link

https://journa.host/@juddlegum/109559375327100009

@juddlegum there's a reason why places like #Germany abolished #CashBail decades ago.

Tho unlike the #USA, most nations don't have #ForProfit - #Prisons...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNhlXUBNJPE via #SecondThought

@Aerik @mekkaokereke 3.3 M to the city of NY is nothing. They don’t care about that obviously. Maybe it will require individuals being held responsible- I don’t know. I do no that attempts to shut Rikers down remain in limbo and #cashbail reforms never get reformed or better yet ended.

@mekkaokereke everyone needs to see ‘Time: The Kalief Browder story’. It was criminal what was done to that boy and the state of NY should be held culpable. But there are so many others like him. #cashbail

@JamesGleick

#CashBail is an abomination and should be abolished. Do some real (and transparent) risk assessment to determine pre-trial release. And track results.

#bail #bailreform

Some really interesting new state laws going into effect in 2023 including MI's #expungement, IL's ending of #cashbail, and various states charnges in #marijuana use laws.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/major-new-laws-effect-2023/story?id=95089296

@SorayaMcDonald how can we best ctpreate a narrative shift around #CashBail? I watched how R’s used #BailReform like a cudgel in NY elections and won some key seats