MORE ON OUR ANTIQUATED BAIL SYSTEM

So a 22 year old woman after being held in jail for four months has been released on bail. Doesn't this beg the question: Why put her behind bars in the first place? She has been charged but not convicted of a criminal offense. The actual charge appears to be a allegedly non violent offense on her part. She was charged with being "an accessory after the fact in the murder of Tim Bosma." O.K. the Tim Bosma murder was horrific, gratuitous and an innocent person had their life snuffed out. But note this woman is neither charged for the murder nor charged as an accessory to the murder. She is charged with being an accessory "after the fact" which I believe could include as little as offerring the accused murderer a meal, a night's sleep or almost anything. July 24/14 I posted here about the ridiculous percentage of jail inmates in Ontario who are unconvicted of any crime. If the Crown feel that she doesn't need to be in jail now then why did she need to be in jail for the last four months? Or is it simply that the system doesn't give a crap. Throw citizens in jail, mumble some legal mumbo-jumbo and everything is just fine. Let the citizen or her friends or parents hire a lawyer, pay big bucks and eventually get her out while everybody waits more years for the trials to get underway. What a system. Today's Waterloo Region Record carried this story "Girlfriend in Bosma murder case granted bail".