Time passes, and finally today California is set to abolish the cash bail system. Can you imagine if your freedom - the very ability to move where you want, read what you wish, eat what you can afford - were curtailed simply because you didn't have a lump sum of cash to go home? Posting bail can't be all that different than buying freedom from slavery; it's simply an archaic reincarnation in modern times. Holding those otherwise eligible for bail in jail is a decision not based on morals or what's right, but on the holding
power of money, stacked in favor of those who have it against those who
don't. California finally recognizes there is a better way and I hope
others follow.
