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by dpkirchner 998 days ago
It's incredibly high:

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.