"Rikers Island is filled with thousands of poor people accused of petty crimes...Their poverty alone imprisons them." The Brooklyn Bail Fund provides bail money to poor defendants. If you're interested in the difference between how rich and poor people experience our legal system, their site has a good explainer.

It is never a bad time to check in on how Wall Street is quietly working to undermine any attempt to slightly dampen the possibility that Wall Street could devastate the American economy, again.

A day after New York City agreed to a $17 million settlement with three wrongfully convicted brothers, Dewey Bozella, who spent 26 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder, has reached a (likely multimillion-dollar) settlement with a New York county. Investing in stronger safeguards to prevent this makes good economic sense, considering how many more victims fester in prison today.