Some low-level offenders at the Bexar County Jail are having their bail paid for as part of a Harvard study. A San Antonio woman who was stuck in jail said she hopes this study will eventually lead to reform.
is conducting a new justice study that will pay bail for select nonviolent Bexar County inmates over the next several years. The study is investigating what happens to low-level offenders waiting in jail because they cannot afford to post bail.
Garcia couldn’t afford bail and spent a year in jail — that’s longer than the punishment sentence. During that time, she lost her job. “We don’t know whether they have actually done something wrong yet. But the type of accusations are typically things like drug possession, petty theft,” Greiner said.
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