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What is bail and why do you have it?

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Bail is a monetary amount set to release an individual from official custody pending trial. It provides quite the revenue stream for the corrupt system.

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The bail on this reel is bent.The boat will founder if we do not bail faster. We are fast approaching the place where we will bail out of the airplane. When they arrested me and threw me in jail, I called my Pappy to throw my bail.


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