Breaking the Bond: Political backlash follows effort to reform cash bail in Texas

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

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We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. Take the survey here or at wbur.org/survey. Local governments around the country are reconsidering the use of cash bail. But those changes often lead to political backlash. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd continues his series from Harris County, which ended cash bail in 2019 for most misdemeanors. Then, we talk with Abbas Alawieh, a leader of the Uncommitted movement in Michigan. He has relatives in Lebanon who are trying to find safety from Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah. And, author Ann Patchett talks about her new children's book — called "The Verts: A Story of Introverts and Extroverts."

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0:28.4	I was just angry at everybody because myself is a victim,
0:31.8	I felt very let down.
0:33.0	You get bail reform and then you get this political backlash undoing it.
0:38.0	Our special series on bail reform continues.
0:41.0	Today, the blowback.
0:43.0	It is Tuesday, September 24th from NPR and W-B-U-R Boston.
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0:51.0	I'm Shirley Jahan.
0:52.0	Jahan. now anytime. I'm Shirley jihad. Today on the show we go to Dearborn
0:57.1	Michigan and talk with an Arab American leader of the
0:59.6	uncommitted movement. His family in Lebanon is seeing the bombing happening there now and is on the
1:07.0	move. And then, are you an introvert? An extrovert? How does that match up with your siblings and your family?
1:15.4	We're going to hear about a new children's book that may help us all learn a few things
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