Washington, D.C. — The pretrial process that is supposed to ensure access to justice and protect community safety has been corrupted by the corporate influence of the commercial bail industry. A new ...

In order to protect their profit potential, companies in the commercial bail industry advance unjust and harmful cash bail practices across the United States. This series examines the commercial bail ...

The president has long railed against cashless bail, but studies have not backed up his claims that changes in bail laws lead to an increase in crime. By Luke Broadwater Reporting from Washington ...

A pair of legislative measures that would reshape the bail system in Tennessee moved forward in a state House of Representatives subcommittee Tuesday with near unanimous "aye" votes for both. The ...

Aaron Freeman read a list of 10 names to his fellow Indiana state senators in January. Each name represented someone accused of a violent crime who had been bailed out of jail by The Bail Project.

The bail bond industry has found a way to put a hold on a California law that would have put bondsmen out of business. The law, Senate Bill 10, passed last year and was scheduled to go into effect in ...

The average bail amount defendants with violent charges are being assessed when they are booked at the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center at 201 Poplar has increased since the system swapped over ...