Canadian Dimension | J Farrar
Just think for a minute about what cash bail means—you can be arrested for a crime and presumed innocent, but whether you wait for the years before your trial at home or in jail depends entirely on the size of your bank account. If you can pay, you go home, prepare your defence, keep your job, support your family. If you can’t, you sit in a cage. You lose employment. Your kids may end up in foster care. Your family may be evicted. A person without money is no more “dangerous” than the person with it. This is simply wealth-based detention.