I just randomly sifted through thie replies and most of it seems to be opinions and not fact.
Generaly a bail bond is issued by a bondsman at ten percent and collateral to cover the entire cost if the "accused" jumps said bail. If you jump bail, its the bondsmans problem to either pay the bond in full or bring you to court. Anyone that has watched the train wreck of a show "Dog the bounty Hunter" can tell you that. Why would you want to make bond and get out of jail? Basicly you stand a greater chance of staying out of jail depending on the crime. This also allows you to secure a private defense which in turn can drag the case out over years instead of weeks if need be. Basic rule of thumb, you get a public defender, your screwed. Your defender has lunch with the other side trying to keep in in jail and you mean noithing to said defender regardless if you are actualy guilty of any crime or wrong doing. They just want to sweep you along and get home in time to watch "insert lame uptight tv show name here".
How do I know,
I wasnt the best person in my teen years but I did not hurt people or delve into drugs. I was however convicted of a crime I did not commit and basicly set up by my public defender. In jail you get no phone call, you get no access to a public defender, nothing the judge says means anything and time is handed out like its free cheeseburgers on skid row. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN IF YOU CAN NOT AFFORD PRIVATE DEFENSE! Plain and simple, cut and dry. The judicial system is a joke and so is "a jury of your peers". If you want the legal system to work, you need to have people making decisions that know how things run and not what they have read in a book. You need judges who have been there and done that in regards to spending time locked up. Its sickening when someone who killed a person or molested children gets off with time in a mental ward or a life sentance when someone who gets arrested for grand theft auto yet is driving their own car (yes, it was my own car and not reported stolen) gets 4 years state time. Life is only 7 years before you are up for parole and most get it in that first parole hearing.
How can I get 4 years for grand theft auto by driving my own car that was not reported stolen. Combine it with idiot cops, a judicial system that does not work, hypocritical public defenders and a DA that gets off by handing out maximum sentences when the entire facts of the case have not even been looked into. That is how your legal system runs on a daily basis in Los Angeles, New York, Iowa, you name it. There are people in some states locked up for 15 years for drug posession (personal use by the way) yet a killer can get ou in as little as 4 years from a mental ward and 7 from a state pen. I do not and have not used drugs nor do I smoke or drink, never had a want or reason to. I think instead of locking these people up for most "crimes" commited against themselves (drugs mainly) more focus should be kept on rehabilitaion with a positive outcome on society as a whole. You lock someone up, you are either giving them a failed life or setting them up to learn from everyone else's mistakes to become a better criminal. Jail is a school and will always turn out a better criminal unless the entire system is overhauled starting with the courts.
I could keep going but it just upsets me how bad the system has failed and does so on a daily basis.
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