A Texas Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a package of bills aimed at keeping more defendants behind bars while they await trial for violent criminal charges. Senate Bill 9, authored by Sen. Joan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trump wants to make criminal suspects pay cash bail. This state eliminated it altogether. New executive orders from the White ...

Officials said they are seeing more pretrial detention and fewer offenders walking free right after arrest.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Aug. 25 aimed at requiring criminal suspects to post a cash bond to ...

Last week would have been my father Robert F. Kennedy’s 99th birthday. As attorney general, his career — and enduring legacy — was built on his commitment to the fair, just and equal application of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County will begin using a new process to get more information about a defendants’ criminal history in order to better determine bail amounts. County leaders including the ...

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New executive orders from the White House aimed at stopping bail reform have put Illinois — the first state to completely eliminate cash bond — into the spotlight of a national debate on bail and ...