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Exactly the point. The police can waste your time. Those people can’t go to work and will likely lose their job because they are being jammed up by police.
by codezero 5y ago
Exactly the point. The police can waste your time. Those people can’t go to work and will likely lose their job because they are being jammed up by police.
- notyourwork 5y agoThis and OPs question are not related.
- colinmhayes 5y agoYea, the bail situation in this country is fucked.
- rootusrootus 5y agoIt varies a lot by state, however. Not every state has private bail bondsmen, bounty hunters, etc.
- nerdponx 5y agoIt's not just time. Rikers is as much of a violent, torturous, psychologically-toxic shithole as any prison, and people (often teenagers) can spend years stuck there [0]. [0]: https://revealnews.org/article-legacy/for-teens-at-rikers-island-solitary-confinement-pushes-mental-limits/ https://revealnews.org/article-legacy/for-teens-at-rikers-is...
- kingcharles 5y agoI just spent 8 years in the county jail while the police wasted my time to try and get a conviction out of me. They offered to let me walk free on my first court date if I plead guilty, but I refused, so I did 8 years locked up. I'm actually still in custody now, just not at the jail. Might be in custody for another couple of years until the case is dismissed. Looking at the statistics for Cook County Jail, there are a number of unconvicted people who have been in there for almost 12 years waiting to go to trial.