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Suppose you are arrested for stealing a car. You’ll be brought to the police station, where the officer on duty will tell you the price for your release. Under the ...

Amid a contentious midterm elections season and rising crime rates in some areas, longstanding political attacks on criminal justice reform have found a new foe: bail reform. Changes to the cash bail ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, N.C., during ...

Few businesses enjoy a reputation for providing a public service as inflated as the bail bond industry. To hear bail agents talk, they’re virtually the only people who can protect innocent communities ...

The California Supreme Court ruling prohibits unattainable and artificially high bail, and tightens standards on who should ...

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, ...

Have you ever taken a moment to think about the cash bail system in the United States? If you’re like me, you may have just accepted it as the way things are and never given it a second thought. But ...

Prosecutors say Kenneth Chee tried to restart his fireworks business shortly after the deadly Esparto explosion. A judge ...