Minnesota’s pretrial system relies heavily on monetary bail and disproportionately impacts Black and Indigenous people and ...

"All it has done is put more people back in jail," Kane County's sheriff told county lawmakers about a law that eliminated cash bail in the state in 2023.

Jamie Raskin lays out the legal strategy to oppose Trump but says, “We’re not going to sue our way out of a political crisis” ...

A bill that would make judges remove the option of bail for certain felony offenders has now been passed to the Texas Senate.

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...

Crime has steadily declined since the 1980s and 1990s, yet pretrial detention has quadrupled—today, nearly half a million ...

The move will likely lead to higher costs for households across the state, and may push more insurers to leave, intensifying ...

According to the Judicial Branch website, bail is the amount of money defendants must post to be released from custody while ...

Paul Powlesland, a lawyer, reported details from a bail form found on his trashed property but claimed officers were ‘nonchalant’ about it ...