Also, while we learn “innocent until proven guilty” in elementary school in the US, it doesn’t apply to poor people. Under our peculiar pay-to-play “cash bail

Also, while we learn “innocent until proven guilty” in elementary school in the US, it doesn’t apply to poor people. Under our peculiar pay-to-play “cash bail” system, it only applies to those who can afford the fee. For the rest of the people it’s very much the opposite: stay imprisoned (and lose your job etc) until not proven guilty. To avoid this, many people take a loan from a “bail bondsman” that comes with a service fee of around 10% of the bail —- which might easily be tens of thousands of dollars and leave a poor person in crippling debt for years or forever — regardless of guilt.