> Cash bail and pretrial jail time exist to force quick plea bargains and criminal records on poor people. There’s not really justification for it. If you aren’t suspected of a serious violent crime or other crimes against people (rather than property), you shouldn’t be in jail.
This sounds fine in theory but in practice it leads to repeated infractions just shy of the incarceration limit.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-prop-47-shoplifting-th...
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-subway-men...
Re:Abolish the Cash Bail System
by dragonwriter on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:16AM
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Neither of your sources (even if they were systematic rather than essentially anecdotal) identify anything like the cause you've posited (one is a post hoc ergo propter hoc with a change in post-conviction punishment, the other links no cause or even preceding change, neither indicates anything relating to pre-trial detention policy even viewed in the most favorable light.)
Cash bail and pretrial jail time exist to force quick plea bargains and criminal records on poor people. There’s not really justification for it. If you aren’t suspected of a serious violent crime or other crimes against people (rather than property), you shouldn’t be in jail.