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Atlanta Faces Call to Overhaul a Bail System That Jails the Poor

Sarah Geraghty, a lawyer for the Southern Center for Human Rights, at her office in Atlanta, Jan. 11, 2017. Geraghty and her allies are pressuring Atlanta to embrace a national wave of bail reform that has already taken hold elsewhere. “This is the right time for Atlanta to move away from wealth-based detention,” she said. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)