Study: Requiring bail money serves no advantage and creates worse outcomes:
https://psmag.com/how-the-money-bail-sy ... .3wixfjv2x
The system is also fundamentally unfair, hitting the people least able to recover:
Quote:
Last week, the DOJ declared the American bail system unconstitutional in an amicus brief filed in the case of Maurice Walker, a Georgia man forced to spend a week in jail on a misdemeanor charge because he couldn’t cough up enough cash to buy his freedom. The incarceration of Americans “without meaningful consideration of their ability to pay and alternative methods” (in the case of Walker, a serious mental-health disability severely constrained his income) don’t just violate the Fourteenth Amendment, the DOJ contended: They result “in the unnecessary incarceration of people and impede the fair administration of justice for indigent arrestees. Thus, they are not only unconstitutional, but they also constitute bad public policy.”
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21 Aug 2016, 7:25 pm
