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 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 ...

The long national debate over cash bail reignited in summer 2025 after the White House issued an executive order in August threatening to pull federal funding from jurisdictions that allow cashless ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Bond costs in Marion County are higher in 2026, after the county rolled out a new bail schedule. Cash bond ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...