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by Consultant32452
999 days ago
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What percentage of people granted bail are unable to post it for financial reasons? I don’t know the answer, but if the system is a good fit for the vast majority of people who ever get arrested, then I would consider that a good system. There are no solutions, only tradeoffs. |
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https://www.usccr.gov/news/2022/us-commission-civil-rights-r...
> More than 60% of defendants are detained pre-trial because they can’t afford to post bail.
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...
> As many as 500,000 people are held across the country in local jails because of their inability to pay bail, mostly for low-level offenses.