Editing Bail (section)

== Bail bond ==
In the [[United States]], it is common for bail to be a cash (or other property) deposit. Cash bail in other countries is more limited.<ref name="Jacobson">{{cite news |last1=Jacobson |first1=Louis |title=Are U.S., and Philippines the only two countries with money bail? |url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/oct/09/gavin-newsom/are-us-philippines-only-two-countries-money-bail/ |access-date=29 May 2020 |work=PolitiFact |date=9 October 2018}}</ref> Known as a bail bond or cash bail, an amount of money is posted so that the suspect can be released from [[pre-trial detention]]. Unless posted by a bail bondsman, this deposit is refunded if the suspect makes all of their required court appearances.

In 46 US states, a commercial [[bail bondsman]] can be paid to deposit bail money on behalf of a detained individual.<ref name="Jacobson" /> This practice is mostly illegal in the rest of the world.<ref name="liptak1">{{Cite news |last=Liptak |first=Adam |date=29 January 2008 |title=Illegal Globally, Bail for Profit Remains in U.S. |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/us/29bail.html |url-status=live |access-date=1 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325113916/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/us/29bail.html |archive-date=25 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Murphy |first=John |year=1971 |title=Revision of State Bail Laws |journal=Ohio State Law Journal |volume=32 |pages=451–486 |hdl=1811/69186}}</ref> In Germany, the use of bail bondsmen is legal if the court allows it in its decision to grant cash bail.<ref>BeckOK StPO/Krauß, 45. Ed. 1.10.2022, StPO § 116a Rn. 3 (German).</ref> Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon, and Wisconsin have outlawed commercial bail bonds,<ref name="liptak1" /> while New Jersey and Alaska rarely permit money bail.