Trust me there are plenty of innocent people in jail that can't make bail, because they are setting ridiculous bails for simple crimes. I got out of Galveston County Jail on March 7th, after spending 99 days there. My "crime" was an assault charge because someone came on my property and was trying to steal. I caught the guy, whooped his ass out in the street in front of my house. They gave me a 50,000 dollar bond for this. They eventually dismissed the case after 99 days, because I had my No Trespassing, and Private Property signs posted. The thing is, it took them 99 days to do something they could have done on my first court date (that took me 2 months to get BTW.) That's how they get people, they put insane dollar amounts on bullshit cases, so they can keep the beds full and make their $117.00 a day off each inmate. I was locked up with a guy that was charged with simple assault, he got into a fight at a club, and since he had a previous case for a resisting arrest, they gave this dude an $100,000.00 bond! That is just fucking crazy! To top it all off, we were watching TV in the dayroom one day, and they caught this guy that murdered 3 people back in 83 in Houston, and they gave this dude a $50,000.00 bond! See how fucked up this is?
My point is, I was locked up with some really decent people that just was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and had to sit in jail for months with crazy ass bail amounts. The system is just messed up when it comes to bail.