Author

Erin George

Erin George

Erin George is national policy director of The Bail Project, a national nonprofit that advances policy changes at the local, state, and national levels through the provision of free bail assistance and pretrial support to thousands of low-income people every year.

Commentary

Punishing poverty: Senate should see ‘Safer Kentucky Act’ would really make Kentucky less safe
By: - February 22, 2024

Cash bail, the practice of requiring legally innocent people to pay money in order to be released pretrial, results in over 9,000 Kentuckians unnecessarily sitting in jail on any given day. It upends the presumption of innocence, creating a two-tiered justice system where a wealthy person, no matter whether they’re a threat to public safety […]