Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm.
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3YGW1)
Cash bail has turned American jails into debtors' prisons, where the wealthy can go about their business while awaiting trial, and the poor can languish for months or even years in jail because they can't make bail (in practice, they generally plead guilty, regardless of their innocence). (more")