The California Supreme Court ruled that courts may not deny bail outside narrow constitutional categories and generally may ...

A new state Supreme Court ruling last week narrowed instances when bail can be withheld, and prohibits unaffordable bail, but ...

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 ...

The Minnesota Freedom Fund backed by Kamala Harris helped bail out several people later hit with serious charges. The Washington Post via Getty Images Kamala Harris’ public support for a controversial ...

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 ...

"Anger got the better of me," said Bill Peyser, who took what was meant to be a noise complaint to another level, when he brought the handgun with him. Back in April of 2017, he got so frustrated with ...

When Dawud Moore heard he’d been assigned bail, he felt relieved. It was January 2015, and Moore, a black man who was a 38-year-old Brooklyn resident at the time, was in an arraignment hearing on ...

A North Las Vegas judge on Thursday chose not to raise bail for a motorist accused of killing a teen and critically injuring ...

More and more Queens judges over the past several years have steered away from granting defendants supervised or early ...

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 ...