At 10 a.m., community organizations release report highlighting lack of oversight of for - profit commercial bail bond industry in New York City and call on elected officials and regulators to take immediate action to rein in predatory and illegal practices, City Hall steps, Manhattan. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Stringer's office estimated that within the past year, the private bail bond industry extracted between $ 16 million and $ 27 million in nonrefundable fees from New York City defendants and their families. (manhattantimesnews.com)
the laws, the judges, the prosecutors — systemic racism is indeed a many - tentacled thing that is a business (private prison industry, the bail bond industry) and a set of politics («law and order» lip service, the war on drugs) that ultimately disenfranchises minorities and the poor far more than it does anyone else. (sbnation.com)