Re:Abolish the Cash Bail System
by nobody9999 on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:33AM
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>Those are all people that are presumed innocent under the law... They may spend only minutes or hours in jail as police gather and verify their information... Run their prints to see if their given name is false and their a criminal with a warrant for their arrest... Etc....
They may. But we're talking about those in pretrial detention, which excludes all the folks you're talking about. And the average length of pretrial detention is 50-200 days.
Would you be able to keep your job, pay your rent/mortgage and care for your children if you were sitting in jail for 3-6 months?
They may. But we're talking about those in pretrial detention, which excludes all the folks you're talking about. And the average length of pretrial detention is 50-200 days.
Would you be able to keep your job, pay your rent/mortgage and care for your children if you were sitting in jail for 3-6 months?