Alec Karakatsanis

Karakatsanis is the founder of Civil Rights Corps and the author of Usual Cruelty

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Americans Aren’t Supposed to Be Jailed Before Trial Just Because They Can’t Make Bail. But It Happens All the Time

It violates a person’s rights to jail her solely because she cannot make a payment and without the government demonstrating that pretrial detention is absolutely necessary

By Alec Karakatsanis
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