When an individual is arrested and does not have cash at hand to pay the entire bail ordered by the court, a bail bond serves as a great savior because it lets the accused go home during the pendency ...

NEW YORK — In 2017, around 33,000 criminal defendants in New York couldn’t post bail at their initial hearing. They went straight from a courthouse to jail simply because they were poor. The New York ...

In Columbus, moments of legal uncertainty can arrive unexpectedly, leaving individuals and families searching for stability in an unfamiliar system. The ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 25 that threatens to revoke federal funding from jurisdictions with cashless bail systems, such as Illinois. The order claims that when ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order to end cashless bail Cashless bail is a system in which defendants are released from jail while awaiting trial based on their promise to appear in ...

President Donald Trump blasted “no cash bail” policies and cities and states that have implemented them during a Monday press conference in Washington. The president announced a sweeping ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, N.C., during a news briefing. Republican state lawmakers in North Carolina are ...

New executive orders from the White House aimed at stopping bail reform have put Illinois — the first state to completely eliminate cash bond — into the spotlight of a national debate on bail and ...

The New York government could pass its own bill as soon as this spring.Advocates for criminal justice reform say that ending the bail system would help curb mass incarceration. Abolishing bail, ...