per day to jail individuals who are awaiting trial. Annually, this adds up to $14,000,000,000 used to detain individuals. (5) Unnecessary detention may be counterproductive and undermine an important purpose of money bail—specifically to produce the defendant at trial. Studies show that those who are detained pretrial for more than 24 hours and then released are less likely to reappear as required than other similarly situated defendants who are detained for less than 24 hours. (6) In Bearden v. Georgia, 461 U.S. 660, 671 (1983), the Supreme Court of the United States stated that the due process and equal protection principles of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibit punishing a person for his poverty . The Court prohibited the incarceration of indigent probationers for non-willful failure to pay a fine because to do otherwise would deprive the probationer of his conditional freedom simply because, through no fault of his own, he cannot pay the fine. . State and local justice systems that impose money bail that leads to pretrial defendants being detained because they cannot afford a money bail amount may result in punishing a person for his or her poverty. (7) Pretrial detention can lead to devastating effects, including threatening the employment, housing stability, child custody, and access to healthcare of an individual. Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514, 532–33 (1972) ( The time spent in jail awaiting trial has a detrimental impact on the individual. It often means loss of a job