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 ...

Find out more about our series Breaking the Bond here. The vast majority of people who are arrested in this country cannot afford to pay bail — which is why states across the U.S. have tried to change ...

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 ...

Sean J. Brennan was ordered held without bail in April after being extradited from Connecticut, where he was allegedly evading authorities.

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 ...

It’s been nearly five years since cash bail was removed for people charged with most kinds of misdemeanor crimes in Harris County, Texas, home to Houston. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd headed to Harris ...