Rand Paul in The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris

On Crime: Replace bail system with jail only for flight risk

In 2017, I introduced a bill in the Senate to encourage states to replace their bail systems, moving away from arbitrarily assigning cash bail and systems where a person's actual risk of danger or flight is evaluated. If someone poses a threat to the public, we should detain them. If someone is likely to flee, we should detain them. But if not, we shouldn't be in the business of charging money for liberty. My lead co-sponsor in this effort is Rand Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky with whom I vehemently disagree on most things. But this is one of those issues that he and I agree on--that all of us should agree on. Source: The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris, p. 65 Jan 8, 2019

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