Fetterman supported ending cash bail 'so we don’t criminalize poverty and we don’t criminalize race'

Fetterman said in 2018 that Democrats favor an end to cash bail in an effort not to “criminalize poverty” or “criminalize race."

Speaking about the Democratic Party's mission as it relates to criminal justice reform in 2018, Fetterman said the party should support ending cash bail because "we are the party of second chances. We are the party that believes — we don't believe in death by incarceration." Kyle Morris covers politics for Fox News. On Twitter: @RealKyleMorris.

"We're the party that doesn't want to criminalize things like marijuana, small-scale marijuana possessions. We don't want to criminalize. We want to get rid of cash bail where it's appropriate, so we don't criminalize poverty, we don't criminalize race," Fetterman told the Delco Young Democast at the Pennsylvania Young Democrats Convention in August 2018.