Access to justice for people living in poverty 2012, para. 52
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Costs are particularly burdensome in criminal cases, where defendants must often put up large sums of money to be granted bail, or risk long periods of pretrial detention, during which they may have to pay for food or telephone use. Those fees can have the effect of prolonging an individual's detention and exacerbating the conditions in which he or she is detained. Moreover, they result in a situation in which criminal defendants with financial means are in a much more favourable position than those without.
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights