Category: Jail

For want of a bail

13 June, 2011 (15:33) | Bail, Hard equity, Homeownership, Innovations, Jail, Markets, Prisons, Supportive housing, US News |

By: David A. Smith    A jail is a home.  It is room, utilities, and board.  And for some, it is more home than any alternative, as revealed in this sympathetic National Public Radio story about those who languish in prison because they cannot make bail.    Leslie Chew, illiterate and economically destitute   Lubbock, [...]