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> This won't result in more poor people being released. It will simply result in a higher percentage of middle and upper class people being extorted into guilty
by stanleydrew 8y ago
> This won't result in more poor people being released. It will simply result in a higher percentage of middle and upper class people being extorted into guilty pleas that they would not otherwise take, under the threat of losing their careers and families as a result of many months, and in a large number of cases, years, of pretrial detention.
Uhh, sounds like they will be treated the same as a poor person is currently treated then.
I don't see what's wrong with everyone being treated equally regardless of ability to pay.
- downandout 8y agoUhh, sounds like they will be treated the same as a poor person is currently treated then. I agree that judges should have the discretion to release poor people that cannot make bail. That part of the system needed to be changed. I don't agree that they should have limitless discretion to arbitrarily hold anyone without bail. That is a gaping and dangerous hole to open up.
- 0xB31B1B 8y agoThat is already the case right now, anyone can be held without bail
- downandout 8y agoThey have the discretion, but it’s relatively rare. I guess I should have said that the system should be adjusted such that judges should be encouraged to do this far more often than they actually do, without the giving them additional power to arbitrarily hold people.