Kamala Harris and Rand Paul: To Shrink Jails, Let’s Reform Bail<br />Meanwhile, black and Latino defendants are more likely to be detained before trial<br />and less likely to be able to post bail compared with similarly situated white defendants.<br />But research has shown that low-risk defendants who are detained more than 24 hours<br />and then released are actually less likely to show up in court than those who are detained less than a day.<br />People awaiting trial account for 95 percent of the growth in the jail population from 2000 to 2014,<br />and it costs roughly $38 million every day to imprison these largely nonviolent defendants.<br />In drafting the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits excessive bail, the founders sought<br />to protect people from unchecked government power in the criminal justice system
