Bail or bust: Florida stands alone in taking fines from those who help defendants post bond

Is Florida running a bail grift?

That’s how one Judge described the state’s decades-old policy of keeping bail money from third parties and using it to pay off defendants’ outstanding fines and fees.

At least one member of an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel that considered the issue this month appears to agree with that assessment…

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