Fair enough, but I still believe that imprisonment absent a conviction or pretrial flight risk should not be allowed. I hope that in the future, we will see these sorts of situations like we see debtor's prisons today.

Another abhorrent example which shows where this leads: journalists can be unilaterally detained for not giving up their sources.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/politics/reporter-jailed-...