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 ...

In 2018, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law to end cash bail in California permanently. But cash bail is still with us. What gives? The bail bond industry led a signature-gathering campaign to ...

Those who can afford to pay bail can go home to await their day in court. Those who cannot — approximately 450,000 people on any given day — stay behind bars. (sakhorn/shutterstock.com) The premise of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In the rollout of her proposed fiscal year 2024 Executive Budget, Governor Kathy Hochul said "conflicting language" in bail reform laws has led to confusion for judges. In her ...

CHICAGO -- One year after Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate the use of cash bail, the impact on the state's criminal justice system appears to have been far less dramatic than ...

In late August of 2021, Minneapolis police responded to a shooting along I-94, where they found a BMW sedan that had crashed into a freeway median. Slumped behind the steering wheel was 38-year-old ...

Questions have arisen about the future of Illinois' criminal detention system, in light of President Trump's executive order to bring back cash bail. It has been almost two years since Illinois ...