Bail Reform: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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With midterm elections approaching, John Oliver discusses the issue at the core of many republican attack ads: bail reform.

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  • Remember kids, if the penalty is a fine that means it's legal for the rich.
  • @LePedant
    When I was 19, I was arrested for being 11 years behind on child support. My bail was set @ $5000, even though I was 19 years old and being accused of being 11 years behind on child support. A week later, when I finally got to see the judge, he released me because it's impossible for a 19-year-old to be 11 years behind on child support, and they had the wrong person.

    There is no way the judge even looked at the case when he assigned bail, if he had, he would have seen that they had the wrong person.
  • That poor child whose life was destroyed by the accusation of stealing a backpack... legitimately brought tears to my eyes. Everything is so fucked up
  • The Kalief Browder story is one of the saddest things in life. This actually not only killed him but his mother as well and negativity affected his siblings.

    He committed suicide, his mother was not paid the financial windfall from the wrongful conviction (which she deserved) and died from not affording treatment. Then his brother and sister were forced out of their family home. Human beings can be so evil
  • "You're charged with a crime, you're guilty... But also presumed innocent."

    So, it's like Schrödinger's Cat. You are both guilty and innocent, until someone opens the box, and finds out you died, because you were locked in a box.
  • @NoMuse13
    Remember, you can be the most law abiding citizen in the world until a cop decides you aren't.
  • If you have 3 million people in prison and the streets still aren’t safe, then maybe something else is going on beyond just filling prisons
  • @jaydaba
    Thank you for mentioning Kalief Browder. His case was heartbreaking he was literally just a kid forgotten in the system and then dismissed.
  • If you’ve never been in jail, falsely accused, you cannot imagine the psychological impact. It’s horrific. And permanent.
  • Here in Scandinavia, they can only jail you if they expect a conviction giving you prison time, if you’re found guilty, the time you’re jailed will be subtracted from prison time - and if you’re found not guilty, the state has to pay you a fairly high compensation, so there’s a high incentive for the state to release people if they can’t get convicted quickly, and if it’s not likely they will get a longer prison sentence!
    I don’t think there’s any countries in Europe that uses bail, at least not in the way the US is! Here "bail" is more a set of restrictions, possible confiscating your passport!
    US system is just a way to make money!
  • Yup. As Quark says, "Punishable by a fine means legal for a price".
  • @cloud__99
    I‘m not American. But every time John does one of the justice system pieces I‘m feeling uncontrollable rage and disbelief.
  • Political adverts on TV - possibly the biggest problem in the US. Illegal in most of the world, completely unregulated in the US. WTF?
  • Better to let ten guilty men go free than to have one innocent person suffer. - William Blackstone
  • The thing which gets me the most from this story is hearing about people being in jail for at least as long as they could have been sentenced for if they had been convicted. How the hell can you be held for that long without a court date?
  • @ryanra44
    Our judicial system is a joke. 4 years ago I was falsely arrested. Had to spend 2 days in jail bc a judge wasn’t available to set my bail. Had to pay $800 for bail to get out. Then pay $3000 for a lawyer to represent me just to have the charges dismissed. To this day. Every time you google my name. I have an arrest photo that shows up on Google for something I didn’t even do. The system is absolutely terrible. That false arrest will follow me for the rest of my live.
  • @Zetsuga47
    "Pleading guilty to something I didn't do just to end the suffering" sounds eerily familiar to describing torture.
  • That judge who raised bail 2k because the girl said “yeah” deserves to be sent to prison for the rest of his life.
  • @caseyleirer9677
    That “yeah” vs “yes” scenario reminds me a lot of the “I want a lawyer dog” scenario. Where they thought the guy was asking for a dog that was a lawyer, and not legal counsel.
  • When you said Kalief killed himself the night before, I started crying. Watching the clear pain in his voice and on his face was about to break me. God damn. Poor kiddo deserved so much better. And yeah, at 16, he was a kid.