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Employees at an Indiana Hardee’s took photos of drive-thru customers debit and credit cards and then used them to deposit money into the accounts of inmates.

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[–] blazera@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do we still have bail?

[–] MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To keep the poors from using their lack of wealth to flee from prosecution.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

To keep workers in jail so even the threat of unjust prosecution ruins their lives. Miss work for a week because police arrested you for no reason? Likely fired. A month or three awaiting trial? Bye house.

Most states are going to wait and see how it goes in Illinois. They got rid of bail last month I believe. Once a good system is set up, the states that care about their people will move to that. Others....