# What if we ended the injustice of bail?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2018
- Speaker: Robin Steinberg
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Law
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_steinberg_what_if_we_ended_the_injustice_of_bail)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail. The sums in question are often around $500: easy for some to pay, impossible for others. This has real human consequences -- people lose jobs, homes and lives, and it drives racial disparities in the legal system. Robin Steinberg has a bold idea to change this. In this powerful talk, she outlines the plan for The Bail Project -- an unprecedented national revolving bail fund to fight mass incarceration. (This ambitious idea is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

## Lectures

1. [What if we ended the injustice of bail?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/robin_steinberg_what_if_we_ended_the_injustice_of_bail/accce6389d1b), 15 min (TED's player)