Google: Today, we’re announcing a new policy to prohibit ads that promote bail bond services from our platforms. Studies show that for-profit bail bond provider

Google: Today, we’re announcing a new policy to prohibit ads that promote bail bond services from our platforms. Studies show that for-profit bail bond providers make most of their revenue from communities of color and low income neighborhoods when they are at their most vulnerable, including through opaque financing offers that can keep people in debt for months or years. Well, you could extend that further: governments and their so called "justice systems" penalize communities of color and low income neighborhoods when they are at their most vulnerable . . . . expensive defense attorneys, years of probation fees, court fees, supervisory fees, law enforcement budgets are among the highest costs for communities. Court appointed lawyers are almost a sure way these poor folks are going to serve time, while wealthy offenders do probation or walk.