Cheating In A Bottom-Line Economy Summary

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As well as race, class disadvantage within American society leads to social injustice. The money bail system punishes the poor people of America. Consistently there are around 500,000 individuals that are in prisons, who are still assumed innocent and anticipating trial, since they are excessively poor, making it nearly impossible to pay money to get out on bail. In recent years, judges used to permit or allow a great deal of people, even poor individuals to be free while they were anticipating trial however no more. For example, “In New York City in 2013, 54 percent of jail inmates held until their cases had been disposed remained in jail because they could not afford bail of $2,500 or less—with 31 percent of the non-felony defendants held on bond amounts of $500 or less.105.”(“Incarceration’s Front Door: The Misuse of …show more content…
Attorneys and lawyers can’t help the innocent defendant as they're helping hundreds of other people at the same time. As well as in the article “Cheating in a Bottom-Line Economy” by David Callahan, explains how the system is never honest with lawyers and attorneys cheat their clients to earn more money and can get away with it as most clients are “less vigilant.” The Penal Bail system ultimately results to a wealth based discrimination or class disadvantage among americans. A solution to the penal bail system would just have to be an increase of awareness of the issue and supporting programs and groups that continue to fight the problem. This is already a solution in the making as the programs and groups that are fighting the issue have discontinued the penal bail system not across the states yet but among many communities and districts in