How Does a Bail Business Operate

Question: Well I’ve been so interested in the bail industry because I have no experience with it directly and always wondered how a bail bonds business operates. Could you give us a brief overview as to what it is you do?

Answer: Well what we do is very simply one thing, and one thing only: that is bail bonds. Most people hear that and immediately think of the neon signs and perhaps a man smoking a cigar in a late night dark place that looks a little seedy and scary. Our business is absolutely nothing like that I’m happy to say. I’m not sure that is a business I would thrive in personally in any case.

What we do is provide bail bonds primarily to family members of people who have been arrested. The reason that bail bonds exist is because we don’t know whether the person who has been arrested is guilty or innocent. Otherwise if you just assumed that they needed to stay in jail until trial, this could become an extended amount of time for somebody who has not actually committed a crime. So that is the heart of what bail bonds do. It is a constitutional right, one’s presumption of innocence, and if we didn’t have that than we wouldn’t have one of the basic underlying tenants that we  value in our criminal system.

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