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The bondsman charges you a fee to lend you the money to pay the bail; if you pay the bail yourself you get it back regardless. You're not forced to use a bonds
by zeveb 8y ago
The bondsman charges you a fee to lend you the money to pay the bail; if you pay the bail yourself you get it back regardless.
You're not forced to use a bondsman, only if you cannot put together bail yourself. There's a decent argument that bails which require a bondsman violate the constitutional prohibition on excessive bails, but I don't know if that's been adjudicated.
Regardless, the judicial system is not charging you a fee.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoThe judicial system isn't charging you a fee, but it is setting a price where the only way for you to get out of jail is to be charged a fee. It's a fee for the poor, regardless if they are innocent of the crime or not. While it's not technically the judicial system, they are absolutely enabling it.