“Some 200,000 people are in jail for the crime of being poor and not being able to afford bail.”
Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator. Claim dated 23 Aug 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
In short
Bernie Sanders (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 23 August 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 August 2019, 7 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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