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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by mikeash on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:50PM (#19306861)
How much competition is there going to be the bail bondsman for the homeless guy who gets picked up for vagrancy, or a poor person working paycheck to paycheck who already owes his soul to the local payday lenders?

Your proposal sounds like a great way to get excellent bail services for people who have money, but that’s not how the courts are supposed to work.

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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by philwelch on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:17PM (#19307580)
I'm not opposed to judges from releasing people of their own recognizance or under a different form of community supervision if that would be appropriate in that particular situation.
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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by crankylinuxuser on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:09PM (#19306968)
> Your proposal sounds like a great way to get excellent bail services for people who have money, but that’s not how the courts are supposed to work.

Sure about that? The way this country is heading is "One dollar = One vote". And once a sector gets accustomed to a stream of cash, there's no way to stop that flow of money.. No matter how dirty that money is.

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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by mikeash on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:17PM (#19307015)
I am sure that’s not how they’re supposed to work. How they actually work is another matter.
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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by perfmode on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:25PM (#19307352)
Are you being descriptive or normative?
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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by crankylinuxuser on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:05PM (#19307526)
I'm afraid I don't understand.
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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by taejo on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:46AM (#19309667)
Are you describing the world as you see it (that's descriptive; obviously you are, not sure why GP is asking) or as you think it should be (that's normative).
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