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Tag: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Posted inLocal & State

Wealth-based jail detention under fire

by Defender News Service

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis are trying to stop Harris County’s practice of jailing people charged with misdemeanors solely because they are unable to pay bail. The LDF/Ellis brief – filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas –d claims that Harris […]