I have always seen in movies how people bail each other out and I am always confused on the concept.
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When you are arrested, but before you go to trial, you are typically held in a Jail Cell so you can’t pull a vanishing act on the legal system and they can keep you under 24/7 video surveillance in case you confess or something like that. It’s also when they will try and give you a plea deal where you just confess to the crime in exchange for a lighter sentence than if you go to court and are found guilty by evidence (they aren’t required to tell you how much evidence they have and will lie and say it’s rock solid even if it’s not to scare you. The prison system is so corrupt it would be hilarious if we didn’t have more people in prison than any other country on the planet. That’s not even per capita, that’s total prison population because there are 60k more people in the American prison system than the Chinese prison system)
Bail is an amount set by the court as a sort of deposit you can pay to get your freedom. If you pay $10,000 or whatever, you can spend the pre-trial time at home and free with restrictions about not being able to leave the city.
If you show up to all of your court dates, then you get the money back. If you miss even one court date, you don’t. If you go through a loan agency, you’re on the hook for the money if you miss a court date, plus a fee for the loan
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