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Tonight, we turn to another installment of our weekly Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask people about their passions.
今晚，我们又迎来了周更节目《简短而精彩》，这是一档了解大家激情与梦想的节目。

Tonight, we hear from attorney Robin Steinberg. She's CEO of The Bail Project.
今晚，我们将走近律师罗宾·斯坦伯格，她是保释金项目的首席执行官。

It's a national organization whose mission is to combat mass incarceration
这是一个国家级组织，其使命是打击大规模监禁，

by paying bail for tens of thousands of low-income Americans at risk of pre-trial detention.
方式是为可能无数面临审前羁押的低收入美国人提供保释金。

So, when I became a public defender, I had no idea how bail system operated.
我成为大家的捍卫者时，我还不知道保释系统是如何运作的。

And it doesn't take long when you're a public defender to stand in a courtroom next to a client,
只要你是公众权益的捍卫者，你就免不了要在法庭上站在委托人身边，

watch a judge set bail, and have the client turn to you and say, I don't have that money.
要看着法官定保释金额，然后看着委托人转过身来对你说：我交不起这个钱。

And, inevitably, what happens is, the client will turn to you and say:
不可避免会发生的是：委托人会转向你说，

I will just plead guilty. They will let me go home. And you want to scream.
我还是认罪吧。委托人会让我回家，而此时的你只会想嚎叫。

And you think yourself, nobody should go to a jail cell because they don't have any money.
你会这样想：因为没钱就进监狱是不对的。

But that's what happens every day. So, jail is terrifying, and it's violent, and it's dehumanizing.
但这种事情每天都在发生。而监狱很可怕，充满暴力，是反人性的存在。

It can do everything from destroy your mental health to your physical health.
监狱会破坏人的身体健康和心理健康。

You can be sexually victimized. You can be one of the many jail deaths that happen in the first week of jail.
你会成为性行为的受害者。进去第一周里，可能就丢掉了小命。

You can lose your home. You can lose custody of your children. You can be deported.
可能无家可归，可能失去孩子的监护权，可能被驱逐出境。

There's a whole cascade of problems that can happen and destruction that happens to you and your family and to your community,
这一系列问题都会发生，你和你的家人、社群都会遭受打击，

even if you're there for one day, two days or three days in jail.
即便只是在牢里待上一天、两天或者三天。

It's a horrifying place to be. So The Bail Project is an unprecedented effort to disrupt the money bail system.
监狱太可怕了。所以保释项目是前所未有的行动，可以扰乱用钱保释的系统。

The idea is to create a central bail fund that we will then use to open sites in at least 40 places in America
我们的想法是创建中央保释金，然后通过它来在美国至少40个地方开放平台。

where we can begin to use philanthropic dollars to pay people's bail who don't have enough money to get out of those jail cells.
在平台上，我们可以通过慈善金来为付不起的人承担保释金，让他们不必坐牢。

Remember, these are people that have not been convicted of anything.
请记住，这些人都是未曾犯罪的人。

These are people that are simply charged with something.
这些人只是被控告了而已。

By using philanthropic dollars, we actually pay somebody's bail.
我们其实是用慈善金支付了人们的保释金。

And, at the end of a criminal case, because bail money comes back, it will revolve back into the fund.
而结案的时候，保释金会重新返回慈善金中。

Bail was actually created to be a form of release. It wasn't intended to hold people in jail cells.
这个项目其实是放人的一种方式，不想把人困在牢狱之中。

And it wasn't intended to create a two-tiered system of justice,
该项目也不是为了创建一个两级的司法系统，

one for the rich and one for everybody else. But that is exactly what it's done;
一级为富人，一级为穷人。不过，确实产生了了这样一个小锅。

75 percent of people in American local jails are there because they cannot pay bail.
坐牢的人中，有75%的人是因为付不起保释金。

These people haven't been convicted of a thing.
但他们什么罪都没犯啊。

Until we grapple with what the reality is on how our country has been addicted to imprisonment for as long as it has existed
我们且不纠结于我们的国家在发展的历史中为何会囚禁成瘾，

and since slavery to mass incarceration have happened, we're never gonna get at the root of the problem,
我们从奴隶制变成了大规模监禁，却从来不深入到问题的源头，

that the root of the problem there is structural racism.
而问题的源头是结构性的种族主义。

And at the root of the problem, there's income inequality.
而结构性种族主义的原因是收入不平等。

And those are big issues we need to deal with. We also need to really ask ourselves,
这些都是我们应该解决的大问题。我们还应该问问自己

do we believe in the presumption of innocence, or don't we?
是否相信无罪推定，我们真的相信吗？

If we believe in the presumption of innocence, then, when somebody is arrested, that presumption should wrap around them.
如果我们相信无罪推定，那么当某人遭到了逮捕，那么无罪推定应该有效啊。

And we don't believe in it, let's grapple with that.
而因为我们不相信无罪推定，所以会找理由定罪。

But if we believe in it, nobody should be sitting in jail cells who haven't been convicted of anything.
而如果我们相信的话，没犯罪的人是不应该被关入狱的。

My name is Robin Steinberg. And this is my Brief But Spectacular take on disrupting the money bail system
我是罗宾·斯坦伯格。这就是我在本期《简短而精彩》中关于破坏用钱保释人系统的看法，

and turning the tide on mass incarceration in America.
以及消除美国大规模监禁的看法。

And you can find additional Brief But Spectacular episodes on our Web site.
如果想看更多《简短而精彩》的视频，可以登录我们的官网哦。

That's PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief.
官网就是PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief。

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1.tens of thousands of 数以万计的

Within our own galaxy there are probably tens of thousands of planetary systems.
在我们自己的星系里可能有数以万计的行星系.&8p_y!14^)ZT。

2.jail cell 牢房

You'd be sitting in a jail cell right now.
你早就坐在牢房里了G5!5OyJ5u3-XEgsTH。

3.be convicted of 判罪

They were shot yesterday after being convicted of mutiny and high treason.
在被宣判犯有叛乱罪和叛国罪后，他们昨天被枪决了GOSy3zz7kp^+,。

4.get out of 出来

I was screaming at them to get out of my house
我尖叫着让他们离开我的家,~wMe|RI,LmD!。

5.take on 承担

No other organisation was able or willing to take on the job.
没有任何别的组织有能力或愿意承担此项工作cp;T-P8;5H5o&[i%。

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