America is one of only two places in the world, alongside the Philippines, where for-profit bail bondsmen operate, and the industry pulls in more than $2 billion a year. This VICE episode follows Vinnie Magliano, a Baltimore bondsman who markets aggressively in the city's poorest neighborhoods, offers payment plans nobody else does, and turns millions in profit each month. The film pairs his story with Allen Bullock, a teenager arrested for vandalizing a car during the Baltimore riots, whose bail is set at $500,000. His family has to raise a non-refundable 10 percent to get him out, a payment that guarantees nothing about the case's outcome and pushes them further into debt. Lobbyists for the bail industry beat back reform efforts most election cycles, but Washington, DC has abolished commercial bail entirely, and the film notes its jails run at 45 percent capacity as a result. The contrast frames the episode's real question: what a cash bail system actually costs the people who can least afford it.