• Drusas@kbin.run
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    7 months ago

    Needing to pay bond to be released from jail is unrelated to the practice of debtors’prisons.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t think this a bond to stay out of jail. It’s a bond to substitute for payment of a fine while awaiting appeal.

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      7 months ago

      The comment I replied to said if you can’t pay go to jail. The subject of this story is the civil fraud trial of Donald Trump in New York. There is no bail and there is no bond to be released from jail in a civil matter. That would be a criminal trial, which this is not. His bond is only to stay the execution on the judgment while he appeals.

      That’s why I mentioned a debtors prison, where people who can’t pay debts would go to jail.