Your Ticket to the Sun

Your Ticket to the Sun

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 792 , Segment 5

Episode: The Injustice of Bail, Drunk Driving Brain, Your Ticket to the Sun

  • Apr 17, 2018 11:00 pm
  • 17:21 mins

Guest: Nicola Fox, PhD, Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist and Chief Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory If you’re making summer plans, you need to hurry to get a ticket to this summer’s hottest spot. NASA is launching the first-ever spacecraft to the sun and you can be part of the mission. Captain Kirk is doing it – aka William Shatner. Get your ticket to the sun here.

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Bail is Not Just

21 MINS

Guest: Shima Baradaran Baughman, JD, Professor of Law at the University of Utah, Author of “The Bail Book: A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America’s Criminal Justice System” Nearly two-thirds of the people sitting in jail around the country right now have not been convicted of a crime. So why are they behind bars? Mostly because they either couldn’t come up with the money to make bail or a judge deemed them too risky to go free while they wait for trial. "And so what?" you may be thinking. These people obviously did something to get themselves arrested. But what about “innocent until proven guilty”? As legal scholar Shima Baradaran Baughman sees it, America’s bail system is racist, unfair to people who are poor, unnecessarily expensive to tax payers and maybe even unconstitutional.

Guest: Shima Baradaran Baughman, JD, Professor of Law at the University of Utah, Author of “The Bail Book: A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America’s Criminal Justice System” Nearly two-thirds of the people sitting in jail around the country right now have not been convicted of a crime. So why are they behind bars? Mostly because they either couldn’t come up with the money to make bail or a judge deemed them too risky to go free while they wait for trial. "And so what?" you may be thinking. These people obviously did something to get themselves arrested. But what about “innocent until proven guilty”? As legal scholar Shima Baradaran Baughman sees it, America’s bail system is racist, unfair to people who are poor, unnecessarily expensive to tax payers and maybe even unconstitutional.