Alec Karakatsanis doesn’t mince words when he talks about fighting injustices in the legal system. “We’ve all become really desensitized to the brutality inherent in putting a human being in a cage,” he says. “We’re trying to use civil-rights laws and the stories of our clients and their families to resensitize people who work in the legal system to what it means to take a human being and her body and put it in a cage away from her family and her home.”
Civil Rights Corps, the small legal nonprofit Mr. Karakatsanis started in 2016, is part of a growing crusade against today’s cash-bail system. Any given night, almost half a million people sit in jail because they can’t afford bail.
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