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>or you literally go to jail without a trial. You go to jail until your trial. Not quite the same thing.

• Guvante 8y ago
  Both are true. You go to jail without a trial until your trial is done.
• ransom1538 8y ago
  "You go to jail until your trial." Uh. No one goes to 'trial' anymore.
• olliej 8y ago
  I go, lets say I'm arrested for some reason (wrong place wrong time, being at a protest, being the wrong colour for the neighborhood). Ican't afford bail, now I go to jail. 2 months later the charges are dropped. I spent two months in jail, I didn't even have a trial, so I wasn't even in jail "until my trial", I was jailed for no reason. That is enough to get me fired - I didn't come to work, and US law doesn't protect me from being fired when a court prevents me from going to work. The /only/ reasons for jail before trial is if there is a risk to the public or a documented risk of not appearing. The existing bail laws punish you according to what prosecution and police can get away with, and functionally turn "bail law" into jail for the non-rich, fines for the middle class. Maybe that could be reduced if the government were considered liable for any and all losses suffered by someone who is innocent, including loss of employment. That would given prosecutors and police some balance to the incentives to prevent bail or demand large bail amounts.
• trhway 8y ago
  You go to jail and that makes you more pliable for a plea deal.