The Bail Trap : A Scandal at the Heart of American Justice
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1620978423
ISBN-13
9781620978429
Publisher
The New Press
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The New Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 17th, 2026
Print length
224 Pages
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.90 x 1.40 cms
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From the renowned founder of The Bail Project, an eye-opening book about why we allow money to play any role in the administration of justice
Over 90 percent of people held in jail pretrial because they cannot pay cash bail will plead guilty, whether they committed a crime or not. Cash bail not only creates a two-tier system of justice—one for those with money and one for those without—it also drives racial disparities in the criminal justice system and is responsible for almost all net jail growth in America over the past two decades. There is perhaps no other component of America’s justice system that is so broken, yet completely integral to the current operation of our courts, as bail.
With engaging and accessible prose, Robin Steinberg, founder and CEO of The Bail Project, and her colleague Camilo Ramirez tell the shocking true stories of people jailed by poverty while also detailing:
Over 90 percent of people held in jail pretrial because they cannot pay cash bail will plead guilty, whether they committed a crime or not. Cash bail not only creates a two-tier system of justice—one for those with money and one for those without—it also drives racial disparities in the criminal justice system and is responsible for almost all net jail growth in America over the past two decades. There is perhaps no other component of America’s justice system that is so broken, yet completely integral to the current operation of our courts, as bail.
With engaging and accessible prose, Robin Steinberg, founder and CEO of The Bail Project, and her colleague Camilo Ramirez tell the shocking true stories of people jailed by poverty while also detailing:
- the history of bail, from its inception in medieval England, as an incentive for people to return to court, to modern America where it is a “mechanism for detention”
- the roles lawyers, judges, and legislators have in the legal system and how and why they have become complicit in excessive bail
- how the current bail system undermines the promise of a fair and just system and the U.S. Constitution
- effective alternatives to cash bail
For fans of The Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer and James Kilgore’s Understanding Mass Incarceration, Steinberg, whose previous book was called “powerfully insightful reading” by Kirkus Reviews, and Ramirez provide an unprecedented look at America’s cash bail system and inspire us to imagine a better, fairer way forward.
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