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St. Louis Ordered to Stop Holding Detainees Simply Because They Can’t Afford Bail

by Kevin Bliss

In response to a lawsuit, District Court Judge Audrey Fleissig of the Eastern District of Missouri ruled in favor of four detainees in St. Louis’ City Workhouse, forbidding St. Louis’ “jail system from detaining people for weeks on the sole basis of an inability to afford bail,” ...

 

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