Freedom at a Price: How COVID-19 has Affected the U.S. For-Profit Bail System
October 19, 2020By Melissa Respeto
The for-profit commercialized bail system is legal in only two countries around the world, the United States and the Philippines. The money bail system in the United States is structured in a way that, irrespective of whether a defendant is later found guilty or not by a jury, if they are charged with a crime and given bail, they can very well find themselves sitting in a jail cell with no recourse on the basis of nothing more than the size of their wallets.
