All Things Bail Bonds

If you stay in jail, generally every two weeks the courts will consider a lower bond. Or, if you can show that the bond is unreasonably high for the flight risk, the defendant’s ties to the community, etc. It doesn’t affect your sentence unless you pay it and then skip town.

Use your one phone call smartly. After arrest and after being booked (i.e., picture and fingerprints taken; information gathered; and “Spin” number is issued), you will be permitted a phone call. There will frequently be a “Payphone” in your cell that permits collect calls only. Dial - you are about to find out who your true real friends and family are!
Call the person you can most rely on helping you. It might be a lawyer, a friend or a family member.
Ask the person you have called to get two other good friends/people together. Ask that the three of them go to the “jail bail” section.
Get the three people to sign a signature bond. At the bail desk the three friends/people can all sign what is known as a signature bond. This is a bond through which your three friends make themselves responsible for your bail.
Wait patiently. It is not an instantaneous release; you and your friends have to wait while the wheels of bureaucracy grind on, and this can take hours before you are released.
Be grateful and comply with the bail conditions. Your bail guarantors have gone out of their way for you to sign the bond document. Do your part by following the procedures to the letter and fronting up to court when requested. Do not ever skip bail and leave town unless you fancy losing friends, family faith and end up in jail when caught.