Op-Ed: Georgia’s Cash Bail Bill Criminalizing The Poor Will Not Make Our Communities Safer
The Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta. | Source: SETH HERALD / Getty Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU-GA.) issued a report on overcrowding in the Fulton County jail. We found that on Oct. 26, 2023, nearly 400 people were in jail simply because they did not have the money to…