Criminal justice advocates in Illinois are celebrating a major victory this week. On Monday, Illinois became the first state to fully abolish the cash bail system, meaning defendants will no longer be ...

It was death at Rikers Island, the awful emblem of New York State’s jail and prison system, that propelled calls for cash bail reform. Those demands achieved some success: Beginning this January, ...

THAT STABBING SUSPECT IS A JUMP TO JUDGMENT. LAST WEEK, A SUSPECT ACCUSED OF STABBING A STRANGER IN MANCHESTER MULTIPLE TIMES WAS RELEASED WITHOUT HAVING TO POST BAIL. THAT DECISION, MADE BY A ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND -- You might not remember the details of the book “1984,” but you probably had to read it in high school, and you probably remember the theme – big government (or Big Brother) isn’t our ...

I heard a member of Congress complain that headline writers were partly responsible for the failure of recent economic legislation by referring to it as a “bail out” plan. He argued that it should be ...

Following the near-deadly shooting of mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg and the release of Quintez Brown on $100,000 bail, paid by a local organization called the Louisville Community Bail Fund, our ...

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bail, meaning he will likely begin serving his nine-year prison sentence on a fraud conviction within a few weeks, a state attorney said. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday granted the ...

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 ...