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Clip: 10/24/2016 | 5m 14s | Video has closed captioning.
Thousands of prisoners sit in Cook County Jail awaiting trial, sometimes for more than a year, because they can’t afford the bail set for them by a judge. Why a growing group of stakeholders and public officials say most defendants should simply be let out for free.
Aired: 10/24/16
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Economic sanctions. Collateral consequences. Permanent punishments. There are 44,000 restrictive laws, rules, and policies that continue to penalize people long after they have served their sentence. This WTTW News four-part series examines this stark reality faced by nearly 3.3 million men and women in Illinois.
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