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No...he was offered bail options as well as plea bargains.
Actually:
Three Years on Rikers Without Trial - The New Yorker
Most of the time, however, Browder had no direct contact with O’Meara; the few times he tried to phone him, he couldn’t get through, so he was dependent on his mother to talk to O’Meara on his behalf. Every time Browder got the chance, he asked O’Meara the same question: “Can you get me out?” O’Meara says that he made multiple bail applications on his client’s behalf, but was unsuccessful because of the violation of probation.
But, because Browder was still on probation, the judge ordered him to be held and set bail at three thousand dollars. The amount was out of reach for his family, and soon Browder found himself aboard a Department of Correction bus.
It no longer mattered whether his mother could find the money to bail him out. The Department of Probation had filed a “violation of probation” against him—standard procedure when someone on probation is indicted on a new violent felony—and the judge had remanded him without bail.
So in short, he was offered a bail that was out of reach for his family at the time. In the same early proceedings, his bail was removed and he was put in the custody of the justice system. Then he was offered a plea bargain. Those aren't options. That is extortion followed by entrapment. It's telling people that they either have the money when asked for it, or they'll be sent to jail and given the "choice" of pleading guilty. In spite of the fact that he from the beginning made it clear he wanted to go to trial. The fact that you consider these as "options" is pretty weird.