On Tuesday March 4^th, I attended the event my class put on. I had to sit down at my group's booth for an hour for our March 4^th event, which I helped represent my group C.A.P.E. Our group stands for Citizens Advocating for Pre-trail Expansion also known as C.A.P.E. As I was sitting at my table many people came around to see what we were doing and what our problem was. More people were actually interested to see what we were focusing on than I thought would. Our problem is that more serious crimes can merit higher bail but this is not always the case. Our biggest issue surrounding bail and it is problems is the fact that regardless of the crime, anyone who can make bail can spend the money and go free until his or her trial. Also people who do not do serious crimes, but can not make bail tend to get stuck in jail/prison while people who do serious crimes can be let go just because they have the money for their bail. When people saw this they became concerned because many of them could either relate to this problem themselves or knew some would could. Some of the people who came to our booth had wonderful questions to ask. I personally was not able to answer all of them, but some of my other group members were able to. One of the questions I had to answer was if Citizens Advocating for Pre-trail Expansion could really effect those who have not and most likely will not go to jail. I had to explain that it does effe4ct us because when we pay taxes, some of our money goes to the jails and prisons. I was able to tell them how some prisoner do crimes right after they get out of prison or jail, just so they could go back. The people I told this to where shocked and did not believe me until I told them that my father is a correctional officer, and that is what he was told by some of the prisoners. I also told them how my dad told me the prisoners have a better life in prison if they can not afford anything outside of prison. We pay for their television, food, activities, and things like that so they rather live somewhere were they get everything for free. Another question I was asked was about overcrowding in prison and how that works. I was not to sure, but I told them overcrowding was a problem in some prisons and jails because of all the people who can not afford to make bail and how many people are put away for some little harmful crimes. Over all, this experience was fun. I enjoyed letting people in on what is going on in our world and finding out how many people actually cared and wanted to help out and try to change what goes on with bail just because of my group.