Limbo

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“Bail isn’t necessarily separating the dangerous from the non-dangerous, or the flight-risk from the non-flight risk. It separates the rich from the poor. So for lower income people it’s just not set up to their advantage. Even if they have a family, even if they have a job, even if they have everything in place that would lead one to believe that they're going to come back on their trial date, if they just can’t pay the money, they have to go to jail.” - Razan Ghalayini, Director, LIMBO

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Release Date:	May 17, 2016
Running Time:	7 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

synopsis

LIMBO exposes and questions America’s broken criminal justice system, focusing on problematic bail regulations that discriminate against the poor and destroy young people’s futures. With pretrial defendants making up 60% of today’s prison population, America is spending $14 billion a year on keeping 500,000 people incarcerated. Filmmaker Razan Ghalayini meets some of those caught in limbo and a surprising advocate for bail reform.