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Nobody wants to be arrested or held in prison. Legal systems are supposed to ensure that this doesn't happen without due process. 3: See https://en.wikipedia.o
by PaulAJ 7y ago
Nobody wants to be arrested or held in prison. Legal systems are supposed to ensure that this doesn't happen without due process.
3: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay_(imprisonment) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay_(imprisonment)
As for "they did nothing wrong", in the USA people who don't have money for bail are held in jail until trial, which can be for many months, or even years in some cases. https://www.americasquarterly.org/aborn-prisons https://www.americasquarterly.org/aborn-prisons There are stories of prosecutors going to people held pending trial and offering them a deal: plead guilty, accept time served, and be out tomorrow, or maintain your innocence and carry on waiting for your trial in jail.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> people who don't have money for bail are held in jail until trial, which can be for many months, or even years Not great, but what I'm complaining about here is people who are held in jail, released (after an acquittal or just a judgment that there was no good reason to pick them up in the first place), and then billed for having the temerity to be held against their will. This is not how commercial exchanges normally work. It also isn't how criminal punishments work, since -- and I can't emphasize this enough -- there is no pretense that these people did anything wrong.