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Cash bail doesn't make us safer

Emily Galvin Almanza
Prison cells (Getty Images/Hitoshi Nishimura)

US jails people with mental illnesses

Matthew Rozsa
Low angle vintage prison cell (Getty Images)

"Lockdown" experts the pandemic needs

Stacy Burnett
FILE - In this this June 20, 2014, file photo, the Rikers Island jail complex stands in the foreground with the New York skyline in the background. Inmate activists, for more than a year, have argued that shutting down the sprawling, 10-jail complex in the East River is the only solution for a cycle of abuses that include violence by guards and gang members, mistreatment of the mentally ill and juveniles, and unjustly long detention for minor offenders. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (AP)

Violence soared at Rikers under McKinsey

Ian MacDougall - ProPublica
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In this May 17, 2011, file photo, a New York City Department of Corrections bus passes the sign near the gate at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Not the end of the fight

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
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Arrest, release, repeat

Victoria Law - Truthout
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Treatment not jails

Katie McDonough

Don Terry - Southern Poverty Law Center
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