meanwhile if you're poor, and you are actually innocent, you can end up in imprisoned for long enough to be fired while waiting for trial or dismissal of charge

meanwhile if you're poor, and you are actually innocent, you can end up in imprisoned for long enough to be fired while waiting for trial or dismissal of charges. What fun. Because if you're poor you can't just hand over 10-250k in bail bonds. You have an option of course: you can use a bail bond agent, that's where you straight up pay 10-15% of the bail amount and they cover pay your bail. To be clear: you are paying the bond, you do not get that back. So if you're poor you end up out thousands of dollars or potentially jobless.