Now in order to understand what prisoners have to endure, it is important to understand a way in which the system has disadvantages for certain groups.  The ACLU explains how “the yawning gap between the wages of Black women and white men — can have especially onerous implications in the criminal justice system. Economically disadvantaged Black women have fewer resources to make bail, causing them to wind up behind bars for far too long, even for crimes they’ve only been charged with and often are not found guilty of” (Bandele, 2017). This is a way in which the law tends to cause disadvantages to some groups and advantages to others. Those with less money and resources can’t post bail, causing them to stay in jail for a very long time which leads to a loss of responsibilities. Jail time is not looked favorably upon and responsibilities cannot be managed when one is in jail. For example, it would be incredibly difficult for a single mother to be in jail when she knows that she needs to work in order to support her family. And she cannot post bail either because of the low funds that she and her family are relying on. The system itself is causing a disfavor to those who are low income which can be linked to one of the biggest reasons why our prison systems have many people from low-income backgrounds.