Here'a a good article at Prison Policy Initiative regarding failure to appear (FTA) and there's a link to a chart where you can find how your state treats it.
Nearly every jurisdiction permits additional charges to be brought against someone who misses court, including the imposition of fines and imprisonment, with the exception of two states: Illinois and Mississippi. Four states — Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, and South Dakota — treat failure to appear as a strict liability offense, meaning no evidence of intent is required to hold defendants criminally responsible for nonappearance.
Of course, Maine, at the bottom. Cash bail is supposed to be an incentive for you to show up, or they get to keep the money put up. It's also another way to extract money from the innocent who've been wrongly arrested.
