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Selling our freedom

 

$22 - $2.4 billion collected per year by bail industry.

Freedom for Profits

This report tells a rarely heard and even less understood story of how the bail industry has corrupted our constitutional freedoms for profit. The for-profit bail industry has reinforced and profited from the racially biased nature of our criminal justice system.

Facts You Should Know

  • 70% of people in jail have not been convicted of a crime.
  • An estimated $14 billion in bonds are secured by for-profit bail each year.27
  • $75 million charged in cases WITHOUT any finding of wrongdoing 
  • On any given day, around 440,000 people remain detained in the United States without having been convicted of a crime. 

The insurance industry collects around $2 billion a year on bail bonds.

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