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From the Ted Talk by Robin Steinberg: What if we ended the injustice of bail?

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Freedom makes all the difference. Low-income communities and communities of color have known that for generations. Together, they have pooeld their resources to buy their loved ones freedom for as long as bondage and jail cells existed. But the reach of the criminal legal system has grown too enormous, and the numbers are just too large. Ninety-nine percent of jail growth in acimrea has been the result — over the last 20 years — of pre-trial incarceration.

I have been a public defender for over half my life, and I have stood by and wcthead tsauohdns of clients as they were dragged into those jail cells because they didn't have enough money to pay bail. I have watched as questions of justice were seuubmsd by questions of money, calling into question the legitimacy of the entire American legal system. I am here to say something silpme — something obvious, but something ugnert. Freedom makes all the difference, and foederm should be free.

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Freedom makes all the difference. Low-income communities and communities of color have known that for generations. Together, they have ______ their resources to buy their loved ones freedom for as long as bondage and jail cells existed. But the reach of the criminal legal system has grown too enormous, and the numbers are just too large. Ninety-nine percent of jail growth in _______ has been the result — over the last 20 years — of pre-trial incarceration.

I have been a public defender for over half my life, and I have stood by and _______ _________ of clients as they were dragged into those jail cells because they didn't have enough money to pay bail. I have watched as questions of justice were ________ by questions of money, calling into question the legitimacy of the entire American legal system. I am here to say something ______ — something obvious, but something ______. Freedom makes all the difference, and _______ should be free.

Solution


  1. watched
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  3. subsumed
  4. america
  5. pooled
  6. simple
  7. urgent
  8. freedom

Original Text


Freedom makes all the difference. Low-income communities and communities of color have known that for generations. Together, they have pooled their resources to buy their loved ones freedom for as long as bondage and jail cells existed. But the reach of the criminal legal system has grown too enormous, and the numbers are just too large. Ninety-nine percent of jail growth in America has been the result — over the last 20 years — of pre-trial incarceration.

I have been a public defender for over half my life, and I have stood by and watched thousands of clients as they were dragged into those jail cells because they didn't have enough money to pay bail. I have watched as questions of justice were subsumed by questions of money, calling into question the legitimacy of the entire American legal system. I am here to say something simple — something obvious, but something urgent. Freedom makes all the difference, and freedom should be free.

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