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What percentage of people granted bail are unable to post it for financial reasons? I don’t know the answer, but if the system is a good fit for the vast majori
by Consultant32452 3y ago
What percentage of people granted bail are unable to post it for financial reasons? I don’t know the answer, but if the system is a good fit for the vast majority of people who ever get arrested, then I would consider that a good system.
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs.
- dpkirchner 3y agoIt's incredibly high: https://www.usccr.gov/news/2022/us-commission-civil-rights-releases-report-civil-rights-implications-cash-bail https://www.usccr.gov/news/2022/us-commission-civil-rights-r... > More than 60% of defendants are detained pre-trial because they can’t afford to post bail. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/economic-justice/criminal-justice-debt-problems/ https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r... > As many as 500,000 people are held across the country in local jails because of their inability to pay bail, mostly for low-level offenses.