# Professor Arpit Gupta shares insights from his research on the American money bail system

1 Faculty News February 21, 2018 ![PolitiFact logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030740.jpg?itok=AksI8GU5)>

Excerpt from [PolitiFact](http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2018/feb/21/stacey-abrams/majority-georgians-jail-locked-being-too-poor-pay-/) -- "'Data on other states indicate that a majority of individuals in jails (as opposed to prisons) are present due to failure to make bail, and so are awaiting criminal trial prior to sentencing,' said [Arpit Gupta](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arpit-gupta), an assistant professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business who has researched the bail system and its impact on low-income defendants."

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