"The suggested system does away with monetary bail. [Money] bail arose and flowered during a period when the law had little regard for the rights of the poor. Debtors prisons flourished. Workhouses were used to contain paupers, who were considered a moral pestilence. The adherence to the archaic system of monetary bail is inconsistent with our present legal thinking. The monetary bail system cannot long survive the recent recognition of the precept that a poor man is entitled to the same justice as the wealthy man."
John V. Ryan, The Last Days of Bail (1967)
