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Detroit to reform cash bail system to end practices that jail people ‘too poor to purchase their freedom’

Michigan 36th district court chief judge William McConico addresses the media.
Michigan 36th district court chief judge William McConico addresses the media. Photograph: Carlos Osorio/AP

A Michigan district court will implement reforms that will force judges in Detroit to state on record how implementing cash bail will protect the community.

The reforms are meant to end practices that commonly jail people from low-income and Black communities and could serve as a model for court systems across the US, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said.

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