Magistrate Judge Ron Sylvester’s story about the need to eliminate cash bonds in nonviolent cases begins with two QuikTrip hot dogs, one actual dog, and a man with mental health and addiction issues ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday threatening to withhold or revoke federal funding to local and state governments that offer cashless bail, arguing that it is a threat to ...

A recent Drexel University–Boston University study echoed those findings, confirming that the decline in incarceration came ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order to end cashless bail Cashless bail is a system in which defendants are released from jail while awaiting trial based on their promise to appear in ...

If you're charged with a crime, you may be required to post bail to get out of jail before your court date. Three common types of bail bonds include cash, surety bonds and property bonds. Bail bonds ...

The New York government could pass its own bill as soon as this spring.Advocates for criminal justice reform say that ending the bail system would help curb mass incarceration. Abolishing bail, ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 25 that threatens to revoke federal funding from jurisdictions with cashless bail systems, such as Illinois. The order claims that when ...

Thursday marked two years since the end of cash bail in Illinois following the state Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ...

President Trump issued an executive order to end cashless bail, and threatened federal funding from jurisdictions that use ...