Critics of cash bail say it creates a two-tiered justice system: Those who can pay maintain their freedom, while those unable ...

In one case, a person accused of a lower-level drug offense has the opportunity to get out by paying a $15,000 bail. But he doesn’t have the money and can’t get it through a bail bondsman, so he may ...

A man accused of killing a woman and her 1-year-old daughter in a deadly Dededo crash will remain behind bars on $5,000 cash bail. 23-year-old John Mariano Moses appeared Tuesday afternoon in the Supe ...

A class-action lawsuit filed Friday is challenging a law passed in 2024 requiring people accused of minor criminal offenses such as trespassing and failure to appear in court to pay bail for their ...

Oklahoma has a decision to make: Will we continue clinging to a pretrial system that punishes poverty and fails to deliver public safety? Or will we move toward a smarter, fairer, and actually ...

Donald Trump’s latest executive order threatening to cut federal funding for communities that have eliminated cash bail for certain offenses exposes a fundamental truth about America’s justice system: ...

In 2015, a pregnant and homeless 30-year-old woman spent 135 days in an Illinois jail because she stole two plums and three candy bars from a Save A Lot store. That same year, a 41-year-old Illinois ...

Among the many other new laws that took effect July 1, Georgia’s bail bond system changed in a significant way. The main goal of Senate Bill 63 is to make it harder for people accused of certain ...

ATLANTA — Two women behind bars in Fulton County Jail sued the state of Georgia on Friday over a recent law that added a cash bail requirement for more crimes, many of them misdemeanors. The lawsuit ...

Sheriff Michael Bouchard said he feared the suspect would kill his ex-girlfriend if he were to be released on bond.