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The point of bail is to put the defendant (or someone close to them) on the hook to pay the bail if the defendant doesn't show up in court. Bail bondsmen offer
by creato 6y ago
The point of bail is to put the defendant (or someone close to them) on the hook to pay the bail if the defendant doesn't show up in court.
Bail bondsmen offer a different deal: pay us a fee (smaller than the bond), we'll pay your bail. If you don't show up to court, the bondsmen loses the bail bond unless they can go find the defendant and bring them into court.
I think maybe the thing that should most change in this system is that practice of bail bondsmen/bounty hunting is made illegal. That should lower bonds significantly, and maybe enable bail bonds to function more as they were originally intended.
I have no experience with any part of this, this is just my understanding.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoOhhhh, I see now. Thank you.
- Larrikin 6y agoWhy are we contracting out to a private business an actual sensible thing for the police to do? Law enforcement tracks down people with warrants why not issue warrants for people who skip out on court?
- ithkuil 6y agoLooks like the system has been designed in ancient times when society was quite different
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y agoBut that doesn't fix anything. People still have to shell out for the bail, and recovery of the prisoner is left up to a private entity (but if they get picked up by a cop on a warrant they still get sent to jail). I'm not really sure there is a way to keep whatever "good" people may be seeing in the system without all the bad parts coming along with it.