Black residents in the District face disproportionately high pretrial detention rates, due to income inequality, systemic biases, and lack of bail reform, and organizations such as The Bail Project are working to end wealth-based detention and invest in services that prevent justice system involvement.
Author Archives: Tiasia Saunders
Tiasia Saunders is a freelance reporter for The Washington Informer and a Howard University May 2024 honors graduate who majored in Media, Journalism & Film, with an English minor. Currently, she is a professional journalism graduate student specializing in data journalism and a Howard Center for Investigative Journalism fellow at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include examining racial disparity through socioeconomic issues in America and its impact on minority, Black, and POC communities.
