If you have money, you can pay the bail and get released, while poor people can’t.

I don’t see why people with money should get benefits in the legal system?

  • mechoman444
    17•4 months ago

    Bail is an option for the courts to use to insure someone that might be a certain level of flight risk shown up to court.

    It’s not 100% necessity. People can be released on their own bond commonly referred to as a “personal bond” they don’t pay anything and just promise to show up.

    Has this bond system been abused as a form of oppression. Of course. We’re human after all and there are corrupt shitty judges on the bench.

    But for the most part the bond system does function.

      • mechoman444
        4•4 months ago

        There are two primary systems of law in the United States that absolutely must be reformed above any other branch or law.

        Immigration and criminal justice.

        These systems in the United States are archaic third world and downright discriminatory to anybody that goes through them.

        They are truly terrible.

        The fact that we even have such systems in place in the United States is mind-boggling.

        Other countries look at us and simply call us barbarians.