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For more than two years they have been kept in a county jail, unable to make bail.

“Another Wasted Life” is inspired by Kalief Browder, a New York City teenager who spent two years in solitary confinement at Rikers Island — three years in jail total — when he couldn’t make bail on a charge of stealing a backpack.

He will make bail, so he won’t be in jail.

Bogner couldn’t make bail—initially set at $150,000—so he was locked up in the Los Angeles County jail for 60 days.

It’s not uncommon for defendants who can’t make bail to lose their jobs and even their homes while in jail awaiting trial.