Breaking the Bond: What bail reform looks like across the U.S.

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🗓️ 26 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. The vast majority of people who are arrested in this country cannot afford to pay bail — which is why states across the U.S. have tried to change the system. Marc Levin, chief policy counsel for the Council on Criminal Justice, tells us about those efforts. Then, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on federal charges of bribery and fraud, allegations he denies. WNYC's Bahar Ostadan tells us more. And, about 7 million American adults are suffering from some form of problem gambling, according to the National Council on Problem Gambling. Heather Hugelmeyer, senior director of behavioral health at Northwell Health in New York, talks about how to recognize and cope with gambling addiction.

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0:25.4	share. Let's get started. The goal is really to say we don't want poor people in
0:30.2	jail who are low risk to languish there and at the same time the serial
0:34.3	killer or whatever no matter how much money you have yeah we're going to deny bail.
0:37.0	Our special series on bail reform continues now today efforts around the country to eliminate cash bail. It is
0:46.2	Thursday September 26th from NPR and W B-U-R Boston. This is here and now any time. I'm Shirley jihad.
0:59.2	Today on the podcast, unprecedented, the mayor of New York City has been indicted on criminal
1:06.0	charges connected to accepting bribes and illegal foreign campaign
1:09.8	donations, many from Turkey, many starting before he was elected mayor.
1:14.7	Eric Adams maintains he is innocent and vows to stay in office.
1:19.9	And then addicted to money, the rush of winning, a windfall. Gambling is legal in just
1:27.1	about every state in the country and it's prevalent now on apps. In televised sports,ambling addiction is more prevalent too.
1:35.6	Now everybody has smartphones which are essentially little casinos in their pocket.
1:40.6	So the access and normalization that's happening with gambling is really putting us at risk for a ballooning crisis.
1:49.0	First, we've been sharing our special series all week on criminal justice on bail reform.
1:55.4	We focused on efforts and impacts in one of the nation's biggest metropolis's,
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