… a light rail station in St. Paul and is now serving life sentence for that crime. So, Mr. Speaker, the list kind of continues to go on and on. And According to an investigation conducted by CNN In Hennepin County, Minnesota, the Minnesota Freedom Fund has bailed out at least 65 defendants who are awaiting trial on felony charges involving violence, physical threats or sex crimes. Similarly, in Indiana, of the roughly 1,000 defendants released on bail supplied by the bail project between 2019 and 2021, 24% had previously been charged with a crime of violence, and 35% were accused of felony charges and had a previous charge. (02:47–03:05)
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