[The Pack Knight]

Here's a novel idea: Don't break the law. Problem solved.

What does that have to do with this article? The article is about people who are detained pre-trial because they cannot afford bail. Pre-trial, as in they have not been convicted of a crime. The law still affords those people the presumption that they have not broken the law, until it is proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt at a fair trial that they have.

[econjack]

OK. Don't put yourself in a situation where it appears that you broke the law.

I don't abide by what you're trying to say. I've told the story here before, but on the way to the wedding reception, the mother and father of the bride were hit and killed by a drunk driver, who happened to be an undocumented worker. The judge, for reasons no one can be certain said that, because he was not rich, bail would be set at $20,000, which he paid. No one has seen him since. To me, two murders that will never see justice because some stupid judge tried to take economic considerations into the bail judgement. People are jailed because of a flight risk, innocent or not. It's got little to do with guilt or innocence at that point in time.