Pretrial processing punishes arrestees as guilty enough to suffer lost time and uncertainty.

Evidence

Defendants may be innocent but by virtue of being arrested are judged guilty enough to pay in time and uncertainty the price that the court exacts for scheduling cases for the primary convenience of the judge. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 709

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A compact statement of how institutions extract payment from people they have not convicted — the presumption of innocence survives the verdict but not the wait.
• XREF: Parallels the material on how administrative contact imposes stigma before any formal determination is made. — connects to: Pretrial detention costs defendants jobs, family ties, and defense capacity. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1692; Arrest alone makes defendants pay time and uncertainty costs to the court — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 709

Broader Connections

• Arrest alone makes defendants pay time and uncertainty costs to the court #corroborates (0.95) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 709