" Pretrial detention, in fact, is a system that disproportionately holds people who are constitutionally defined as “presumed innocent” behind bars based not on dangerousness but on poverty. I routinely evaluate people who have already been incarcerated for months by the time I see them, despite the fact that they haven’t been convicted of a single crime. Often they remain jailed instead of out on bail because they cannot come up with a bond sum of a few hundred dollars. "

― Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration