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> "Nationwide, over 500,000 people are incarcerated in county jails like the one in Redwood City, 427,000 of whom have not been found guilty and are still await
by akiselev 4y ago
> "Nationwide, over 500,000 people are incarcerated in county jails like the one in Redwood City, 427,000 of whom have not been found guilty and are still awaiting trial." Apply that same 0.5% here, and that's 2,135 people. There are literally thousands of innocent people in the prison system. Thousands. A bus seats like 50 people. Imagine 40 buses full of innocent people going to jail, and that's the reality we live in.
Nitpick: that's 427,000 innocent people incarcerated, not 2,135. They all deserve the presumption of innocence.
- from 4y agoThe decision to grant bail is in part based on the strength of the evidence and the danger to the community calculation is also in part based off past convictions. Not saying that is entirely fair, but the truth is most people in jail really are guilty which is the reason voters either don't care about this issue or even want to make the system more stacked against defendants.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoThat’s not the truth at all. In fact, when community funds start paying bail for those who couldn’t afford it, the majority end up having the case dismissed, because there never was any evidence - there was just the threat to let them sit in jail until they plead guilty.
- coryrc 4y agoThat's cherry-picked results from a particular subset, also ignoring that many similar people were also released without paying any bail.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoNope. The majority of people arrested are not guilty of a crime. Those similar people who were released without paying bail are also likely to be innocent, so I don’t know how you think that opposes my point.
- john_the_writer 4y agoThey deserve the presumption of innocence by the law. That does not in fact mean they are actually innocent.