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It would easy for people to coerce others into giving up money for bail, as well. How is this worse in that aspect?

• manigandham 8y ago
  Would you rather give up some money or your freedom? They are not comparable at all, and locking up an innocent person is unimaginably worse.
• shimms 8y ago
  Because in the first example all the person lost was money, in the other - their liberty. Not sure how they're at all comparable.
  • topmonk 8y ago
    The judge can oversee it, and if it appears anything illegal was involved, he can disallow it. With money, this is much harder, because it's difficult to determine where money really came from.
• learc83 8y ago
  Because the person who was coerced is in jail as opposed to just missing some money.
• dragonwriter 8y ago
  It's worse than having neither hostages nor money bail, which is what it was offered as an alternative to.