Mass incarceration has become a hot button topic recently. The United States, reportedly, has the highest prison population in the world. Some think that the U.S has the highest prison population per capita of any country in the history of the world. How did this happen? Many reasons, of course. From stricter drug laws and the war on drugs to shifting criminal codes,…
HBO has another brilliant turn-of-the-screw on their hands. The name is “The Night Of,” and it stars Naz, the son of Pakistani immigrants played by Riz Ahmed (“Jason Bourne,” “Nightcrawler”) who wakes up after a one-night-stand to find the woman he bedded murdered. The show is a who-dun-it, but the elements that make it great are the blithe corruption of the criminal justice system and…
There’s an old adage that says the quicker the better. They might as well have been talking about getting out of jail. It’s an unsightly experience, being in there, akin to feeling exposed to the elements of mother nature for the first time. It’s daunting and scary, but that’s why bail exists: to get you out of jail as quickly as possible. ABBA Bail Bonds…
By far, Suge Knight’s greatest accomplishment is winning over Tupac Shakur. Deep in his feelings (and rightfully so) after his blockbuster sexual abuse trial in 1995, the “Strictly 4 My Niggaz” star (he’d yet to release his masterpiece “Me Against The World”) sat in jail plagued by doubts and seething with anger. It would…
Bail has come to be seen as something that his inherently unequal.
But bail is just a way the jail system attempts to guarantee that a defendant makes it a priority to arrive at their court dates while working in parallel with the public safety and, in turn, balancing the restraints put on a defendant’s liberty.
