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Today, Explained

A world without bail?

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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With the wave of protests came waves of arrests and record-breaking donations to bail funds across the US, but reformers hope for a reckoning of one of the only for-profit bail systems in the world. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All over the United States, people are talking about police reform.

1:07.3

Defund the police, abolish the police, or in more cases at least change the police.

1:13.9

Broadly speaking, what we're talking about here is criminal justice reform.

1:18.3

In a lot of ways, the police are the front lines of the criminal justice system.

1:22.5

And it's the court system, and then there's the prison system.

1:25.9

All of this together makes up the criminal justice system.

1:29.1

And the people who have been calling for criminal justice reform since long before the death

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