Talk:Bail

message: Anyone have more info on what the current US bail laws are? All that's in the article is just a legal citation. Anyone have a copy of the USC onhand? Thanx 68.39.174.150 20:27, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial comments 

message: I've been hearing on my local NBC news station, the terms Bond and Bail used interchangably.
Is this correct?
A direct quote: "..the judge set bond at $300."
That does not sound correct to me. Wouldn't the judge set bail, and then the accused would pay a bondsman?
Just as the artcile states?
This is something that has been bothering me for a long time. If it turns out bail and bond CAN be used interchangably, we should probly add a section about that to this article.
--Quasar 14:02, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be nice if the article would explain the difference.  Prometheus-X303- 16:42, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bond and Bail interchangable?! 

message: The sentence:
"Some states have very strict guidelines for judges to follow, with a published bail schedule.[9]"
with the link to LA bail schedule misleadingly suggests that CA has uniform bail rates from one city to the next.
This appears to be false e.g. San Bernardino County sets different rates.
(I do not know what is the true statement).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.134.248.159 (talk) 01:35, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bail set by county not state 

message: As discussed in the news article "Bondsman Lobby Targets Pretrial Release Programs", in the United States, pretrial release is an alternative to setting bail, and bails bondmen don't like it. The Wikipedia article doesn't mention this option at all, and it seems worth adding.  -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 23:17, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pretrial release 

message: I don't remember getting any bond hearing when I was arrested as a youth and sent to a juvenile detention center. 184.96.214.236 (talk) 05:29, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do youth not get them? 

message: ? 188.222.6.122 (talk) 19:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Immigration Bail 

message: I don't see that Jump bail is notable enough to warrant it's own article. Any opinions either way? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:07, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: My orignal plan was to only merge the referenced bits, should have said that, and thanks for the idea about Bounty Hunter, then redirect the rest to Bail, rather than do an AfD. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:18, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Redirected without merge - given that it's all unreferenced. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:17, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge of [[Jump bail]] 

message: Currently working on merging Bail reform into this page. Hardly anything links to it, and it requires a lot of overhaul anyway. Going to put it in the United States section of Bail because it's very United States-centric. Zi Shy (talk) 17:46, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge of [[Bail reform]] 

message: Bail Reform
Based upon the value long ago proclaimed by the Supreme Court, “In our society, liberty is the norm, and detention prior to trial or without trial is the carefully limited exception,” the goal of many bail reform groups in the United States such as Equal Justice Under Law and the American Civil Liberties Union is to bring about change to the traditional money bail system.[1] Wealth based detention has certain consequences seen through the effects of overcrowded local jails and drained local budgets to keep those individuals detained. On any given day in the United States, there are about 500,000 human beings in government jails because they cannot afford to pay money bail.[2]
In San Francisco, Equal Justice Under Law (civil rights organization) filed a lawsuit in 2015 that sought to end the money bail system in that district. Sheriff Vicki Hennessy was added as a defendant to the original case that involved the state and city. Hennesey said in a statement: "However, a system that allows one person access to immediate freedom through the payment of cash while another person with the same criminal history and charges who lacks financial resources remains behind bars seems unfair to me," as a response to the bail system that she agrees should be changed.[3]
Opposition
The California Bail Agents Association are opposed to recent progressions made in the Santa Clara County when their Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to drop bail requirements for hundreds of inmates awaiting trial. They pointed to recent increases in California’s property and violent crime rates in 2015, which rose 7.2 percent and 7.6 percent respectively.[4]
Maxwell moilanen (talk) 06:13, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible changes 

message: I am working on this article but it is a mess. To do: 
* bail vs bond terminology -- clarify 
* find sources & add a global perspective for non-common law countries: Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe etc. 
* add a further reading section 
* clean up & check citations; add more general citations 
* possibly split out England/Wales section to a stand-alone article, like the Bail in the United States article 
* re-add a section about (global) bail reform efforts 
-- phoebe / (talk to me) 23:48, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  to do  

message: Mapmaker345 (talk) 19:07, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Map Request