The ACLU of Texas filed a lawsuit on behalf of people locked in Galveston County Jail because they cannot afford to pay bail, challenging the county’s practice of automatically setting money bail to detain people arrested for misdemeanors and felonies. This follows a fifteen-month investigation of Galveston County, revealing that thousands of people are locked away each year, without a hearing, simply because they cannot afford to pay money bail.
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