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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until recently, the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which began paying criminal bail and immigration bonds in 2016, had one full-time staff member, one part-time staff member, and eight volunteer board ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the Illinois Supreme Court ruling it Constitutional, the controversial Pretrial Fairness Act changes virtually everything ...