The California Supreme Court ruled that courts may not deny bail outside narrow constitutional categories and generally may ...

President Trump’s executive order wields a cutoff of federal funds as a threat to pressure jurisdictions like Washington, D.C., to stop releasing defendants without forcing them to post a payment, ...

A Baltimore County man charged with kidnapping and assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Cockeysville on Thursday will remain in ...

President Donald Trump's latest move in his crime crackdown is an executive order to end cashless bail, and he threatened to withhold federal funding from states that don’t end those policies. The Aug ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Bond companies across Harris County are now required to collect a minimum of 10% of bonds when bailing out people accused of certain violent crimes. The Harris County ...

A Chicago alderman calls for changes to Illinois' no-cash bail law after a felon on pretrial release allegedly killed a ...

President Trump wants poor people to stay in jail when they are arrested, while still presumed innocent, even if it takes months or years before their cases come to trial. He didn’t exactly put it ...