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

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

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

The Republican’s Senate Bill 40 would ban political subdivisions from sending public funds to nonprofits that pay bail bonds ...

The Georgia Senate on Monday voted to let bail bondsmen hold local elected office ... lawmakers essentially lost a week of work because of a snowstorm that canceled a series of important budget ...

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

THIS LAST WEEK, GOVERNOR KELLY AYOTTE BACKED A NEW AMENDMENT THAT WOULD ROLL BACK LARGE PORTIONS OF THE 2018 BAIL LAW ... ENFORCEMENT STANDPOINT TO DO ALL THIS WORK AND TREMENDOUS RESOURCES ...

A personal recognizance bond is a type of bail bond that does not require a defendant to ... Abbott aims to work with the Texas Legislature to fix that by amending the constitution itself.

A private company that uses GPS tracking to monitor offenders released into the Victorian community on bail has suddenly closed, with the Victorian premier labelling the company's conduct ...

The Minns Labor Government has announced that temporary youth bail law changes will be extended from 12 months to 4 years, with data showing 80% of young people charged with certain offences have been ...

“It is clear there is more to do to keep our communities safe,” she said. “They have already got to work and we will move ... who commit a crime while on bail, saying Victoria Police were ...

Bail bond reform was named one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency items for the 2025 legislative session, which he announced on Sunday at the State of the State Address.