I enjoyed your article about your friends wife being a bail bondsman. My wife also is a bondsman. She is licensed to write Washington Bail Bonds and owns her own bail bond company. I guess it is a rarity to find a female bail bond agent, but imagine it is not much different than most other jobs. She answers the phone when it rings, she explains to people what they need (financially, collateral, etc) to get out of jail and then makes it happen.. One area she really spends a lot of time on is explaining to defendants and indemnitors what their responsibilities are and what they must do to keep from losing their collateral.
Just yesterday and the day before and the day before that I spent with her as she drove around two different counties in Washington as she was looking for a bail jumper. This guy was doing everything he was supposed to be doing, he was wearing an ankle monitor and checking in on a daily basis like he was supposed too. It turns out (alledgedly) the prosecuting attorney in Cowlitz County told the defendant that he was going to get life in prison. In all actuality he probably would have received 4-6 years. The defendant got scared cut off his monitor and ran. My wife is a great business woman and will not stand for someone cheating her out of money (if the defendant fails to appear in court, she has to pay the court $25,000.00) so we are spending our holiday season trying to locate this guy, return him to custody and mitigate our losses.
It takes a lot of nerve to be a bail bondsman, I think it takes more to be a female bail bondsman because you have to deal with all the good ol’ boy stuff. My hat is off to female bail bond agents eveywhere. Keep up the good work ladies.