Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, N.C., during ...

Fear still fuels the bail reform debate, but new data from Illinois show that holding on to cash bail may make communities less safe. A year ago, Illinois made headlines as the first state to ...

NEW YORK — In 2017, around 33,000 criminal defendants in New York couldn’t post bail at their initial hearing. They went straight from a courthouse to jail simply because they were poor. The New York ...

A study led by Jaquelyn Jahn, PhD, an assistant professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, that found no change in gun violence in New Jersey after bail reform, was mentioned in an Aug. 11 New ...

President Trump on Monday signed a pair of executive orders seeking to eliminate cashless bail in the United States. One order directs his administration to identify federal funding that could be ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Of all our presidents, is Donald Trump the foremost expert on bail? If it’s a matter of personal experience, then yes.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, N.C., during a news briefing. Republican state lawmakers in North Carolina are ...

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, ...

Fear still fuels the bail reform debate, but new data from Illinois show that holding on to cash bail may make communities less safe. A year ago, Illinois made headlines as the first state to ...