An international human-rights group plans to spend more than $5 million to bail out 500-plus women and teens held on Rikers Island starting in October, the New York Times reported last week.
“The crux of the issue is that in New York City, we criminalize poverty,” Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, told the Times on Sept. 19. “There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.”
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