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Hardly worth the gas to even drive down for the county lock up.
Expert bail bondsmen began to emerge within the United States in 1898, pledging ten percent of a defendant’s bail bond amount for the court in order for the defendant to wait out their trial outside of a holding cell inside the county jail.
These days expert bondsmen limit their services to mainly helping defendants make bigger bail amounts in which the ten to fifteen percent charge for their services warrants their efforts. Paying ten percent on a thousand dollar bail only nets the bondsman about ten dollars. Hardly worth the gas to even drive down to the county lock up. Continue reading