Friends, families and attorneys have posted more than $2 million to get migrants out of...
on private property, according to the jail roster obtained this month. More than a thousand of those migrants were released on cash bonds, with the average set at about $2,200.
Civil rights groups are particularly incensed by a new county policy that runs counter to typical bond arrangements, and which they argue is illegal and criminal.requires that funds be returned to the person who put up the bond — be it a family member, friend or attorney — or, if no one has a receipt, to the defendant.
“It is certainly not done that way in order to hamper their ability to get the bond back,” said the attorney, Tony Hackebeil. “The only reason it’s done that way is to ensure that the bond will be returned to the right person.”
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