Bail-skipping is endemic to the American criminal justice system. In 1994, the Justice Department
reported that twenty-five percent of felony defendants released on their own recognizance failed to
appear at trial; of these, eight percent were at-large a year after arraignment. Other studies suggest that
half of all defendants released prior to criminal proceedings have a history of skipping bail. Thousands of people skip. Not surprisingly, therefore, public law
enforcement is ill equipped to retrieve all the fugitives that the criminal justice system produces. Bounty
hunters apprehend approximately 25,000 fugitives within the United States each year. They return to
custody over ninety-nine percent of the criminal defendants who contract with bondsmen and then skip
bail. Given this efficiency and the state’s limited resources, the bail bond industry plays a critical role in
our judicial system. Without it, the state’s ability to prosecute would be impinged, the deterrent effect of
legislation would be compromised, and dangerous fugitives would remain at large indeterminately.
Bondsmen would grow increasingly reluctant to post bail, and many more innocent defendants would
spend time languishing in already overcrowded jails.

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