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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — For the people marching in the streets for more than a year after the killing of Breonna Taylor, a wide-ranging new federal investigation of policing in Louisville is seen as one more chance for justice. The demonstrations big and small have led to lawsuits and complaints that police are abusing the […]

Franklin County jail in downtown Columbus. A bipartisan group of lawmakers launched another effort to overhaul the state’s bail system, which has been talked about for years and is backed by conservative and liberal groups. The newly introduced Senate bill doesn’t eliminate cash bail, but caps it at 25% of a person’s monthly net income. Sen. Rob McColley (R-Napoleon) is sponsoring the bill with Sen. Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City) and three co-sponsors, two of them Democrats. McColley said ...

Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Ohio say the current cash bail system criminalizes poverty by keeping those who can't pay in jail.

Another Effort To Reform Ohios Cash Bail System Launched COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers launched another effort to overhaul the state’s bail system, which has been talked about for years and is backed by conservative and liberal groups. The Justice Center in Cleveland, the complex which houses the Cuyahoga County jail. [Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau]The newly introduced Senate bill doesn’t eliminate cash bail, but caps it at 25% of a ...

Ivan Menezes, CEO, Diageo Since becoming the CEO of Diageo (DGE.L) in 2013, Ivan has been passionate about driving inclusion and diversity at the company.  Story continues In 2020 he launched a new 10-year sustainability action plan titled ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’.  The plan laid out goals including increasing the representation of ethnic minorities in leadership positions to 45% by 2030, as well as increasing the percentage of Diageo suppliers from female and minority-owned bus...

Tai Freligh chats with actress Victoria Park about her role on The CW’s The Flash… Victoria Park is an actor, director, and storyteller, born and raised in Chicago, IL. As a proud, second-generation Korean American, she is passionate about uplifting the marginalized stories that are often left untold. Victoria is best known for playing Kamilla Hwang on The Flash (The CW). She is also known for her role as Gaby Cho on the critically acclaimed show Sweet/Vicious (MTV), and for her leading r...

Access to money is an arbitrary way to make decisions about who goes free before trial.

May 5, 2021 This photo provided by the Ocean City Fire Department shows the wreckage from a car accident on the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City, Md., on Sunday, May 2, 2021. A bystander jumped over a highway guard rail and into a Maryland bay Sunday to rescue a child who had been thrown from a car and into the water during the crash, according to authorities. The child was ejected from a car on the Route 90 bridge in Ocean City and landed in the Assawoman Bay, the Ocean City Fire Department said ...

The Bail Project has paid $41 million to bail out more than 15,500 low-income people since its founding in 2018. This year, the group is expanding into the Deep South, where 7 of the 10 states with the highest incarceration rates are located.

‘Bail Out the South’ seeks to get thousands of poor people out of jail Updated May 04, 2021; Posted May 04, 2021 Letitia Sanabria poses for a portrait in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday, May 2, 2021. A national effort helping to bail poor and low-income people out of jail formally announced on Tuesday, May 4, its expansion into the Deep South. Sanabria still weeps when she thinks about the few days last winter that she spent in a Louisiana parish jail because she couldn’t afford to post bond o...