Chloé White: Vermont needs to end wealth-based incarceration

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Chloé White, who is policy director at the ACLU of Vermont. 
Every day in Vermont we imprison people who have not been convicted of a crime simply because they are poor.
That may sound surprising, but it is the inevitable result of our cash bail system, where those accused of crimes must trade money for their freedom. If they don’t have the cash, it can mean days, weeks or months of pre-trial imprisonment.
In Vermont, around 400 people