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DESCRIPTION:Money bail in the United States is one of the major causes of mass 
 incarceration and disproportionately targets the poor and communities of 
 color. There are well over 2 million people in prison at any given time, 
 more per capita than any other country. We spend over $80 billion in tax 
 dollars on prisons and lock up hundreds of thousands of people for 
 nonviolent offenses.\n\nCalifornia will become the first state to eliminate 
 money bail for suspects awaiting trial, replacing it with a controversial 
 pre-trial risk-assessment system that could increase incarceration rather 
 than reduce it. Senate Bill 10, signed by former Governor Jerry Brown, will 
 go into effect in October 2019.\n\nIn California alone "fifty thousand 
 people sit inside jails for no other reason than that they cannot afford to 
 pay their high money bail," says Raj Jayadev, co-founder of Silicon Valley 
 De-Bug.\n\nWhile most Americans know very little about the current 
 for-profit money bail system, the documentary film “The Bail Trap: 
 American Ransom” (2017, 40 minutes) provides an inside look at how it 
 works and how it can be reformed.\n\nThe Second Saturday Documentary Series 
 will screen the film at 1`:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, at Niles Discovery 
 Church, 36600 Niles Blvd., Fremont. Discussion after the film will be led 
 by a member of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a grassroots organization that has 
 been actively advocating for bail reform for many years. The monthly series 
 is sponsored by Niles Discovery Church and the San José Peace and Justice 
 Center. Admission to the film is free.\n\n“Nowhere are these inequities 
 in our criminal justice system more apparent than in our broken money bail 
 system,” says Mehak Anwar of Brave New Films, the non-profit producer of 
 the film.\n\nThe United States is one of only two countries in the world 
 that has a for-profit money bail system controlled by large insurance 
 companies that issue billions of dollars in bonds every year.\n\nTogether, 
 let’s end money bail and unfair mass incarceration!\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/23/18821402.php
SUMMARY:Second Saturday Documentary Series - The Bail Trap: American Ransom
LOCATION:Niles Discovery Church\n36600 Niles Boulevard\nFremont, California 94536\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/02/23/18821402.php
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