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Two Georgia district attorneys are among those criticizing a bill to require cash bail before anyone charged with a felony could be released from jail, saying it could maroon poor people behind bars and reduce access to pretrial diversion and alternative courts.
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Mass incarceration culture promotes notion of continued punishment for those who commit legal offenses
Reforming the cash bail system benefits both the accused and taxpayers Sara E. Murphy, For Beacon Magazine Published 7:21 am UTC Feb. 10, 2021 Beacon Magazine and the Savannah Morning News explore the effects of race and class discrimination in Savannah institutions and offer solutions to overcoming the obstacles that divide us. A fundamental tenet of the American criminal justice system is its presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty, yet 74 percent of people in U.S. jails have not been convicted of a crime, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. That’s more than 55...
Beacon letter from the associate editor: Keep going Savannah. You've got this. Ariel Felton Dear Reader, Back in October Amy Condon, my friend and the usual associate editor of Beacon, asked me to serve as guest editor for Volume 2/Issue 4 — which focuses on the intersection of race and class in Savannah. So, let me introduce myself. I grew up in Byron, a tiny town in the center of Georgia. Savannah has enchanted me since I was a little girl and my family vacationed here in the summer. We fed birds in the squares, visited the beach, went to museums, and ate ourselves silly. When the vacat...