Maryland Trying To Approve A Unique Way To Make Bail Less Expensive (HBO)
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5:45Now PlayingWorried she wouldn’t have much to give her children for Christmas, Shannan Wise, a 27-year-old single mom from Baltimore, struggled to get into the holiday spirit this past year. “It’s just bill after bill,” she said. “I can’t handle this bill, I can’t handle that.”
A year earlier, Wise was waiting in a Baltimore jail cell with no clue how to pay her bail. She had been arrested and charged with a first degree assault — which she denied committing — after a confrontation with her sister. A judge set her bail at $100,000, a sum far out of reach for someone working two temp jobs and attending medical-billing school, even though her friends and family scrambled to help. A bondsman eventually agreed to bail Wise out in exchange for a series of nonrefundable payments totaling $10,000, or 10 percent of her bail.
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