Comments on: Pretrial Detention and Why It’s Like That https://windypundit.com/2016/02/9690/ Classical liberalism, criminal laws, the war on drugs, economics, free speech, technology, photography, sex work, cats, and whatever else comes to mind. Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mark Draughn https://windypundit.com/2016/02/9690/#comment-26352 Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:48:16 +0000 https://windypundit.com/?p=9690#comment-26352 In reply to Crash Jones.

Thanks

]]> By: Crash Jones https://windypundit.com/2016/02/9690/#comment-26351 Sun, 21 Feb 2016 04:04:20 +0000 https://windypundit.com/?p=9690#comment-26351 Great post made me think then made me mad. You should do a follow-up. Keep up the good work. You are a regular read.

]]> By: Chuck Pergiel https://windypundit.com/2016/02/9690/#comment-26329 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 06:26:46 +0000 https://windypundit.com/?p=9690#comment-26329 Nobody cares about people who get arrested. This is the land of the stupid and easily panicked.

]]> By: Mark Draughn https://windypundit.com/2016/02/9690/#comment-26314 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:25:10 +0000 https://windypundit.com/?p=9690#comment-26314 In reply to Wilson.

Yeah, there are a whole bunch of related issues here — high bail, bail on minor crimes, harassment of people providing bail funds, the list goes on and on.

]]> By: Wilson https://windypundit.com/2016/02/9690/#comment-26313 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:21:25 +0000 https://windypundit.com/?p=9690#comment-26313 Biggest abuse is bail deliberately set too high for the defendant to pay. Geofencing has made pretrial detention obsolete, it now exists only to provide immediate punitive satisfaction and to impair the legal defense

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