Bail

A California bill replaces cash bail with risk-assessment algorithms, which critics argue will perpetuate the pre-trial detention of minority and low-income defendants.

A California law eliminating cash bail has been put on hold.

Pre-trial detention hurts defendants and taxpayers.

The bill abolishes paying money as a condition of release from jail pre-trial.

The Texas-based legal non-profit will offer the Trump administration $20 million to cover the bail bonds of detained migrant mothers separated from their children at the border.

A new poll from the MacArthur Foundation finds most Americans' sentiments about the justice system are at odds with the Trump administration's punitive policies.

Advocates in Chicago, New York, and beyond are fighting GOP moneymen, and major insurance companies, to end the predatory practice.

In Alaska, a point-based system will replace cash for determining who the state will release on bail.

Can cryptocurrency destabilize pretrial detention? Bail Bloc thinks so—and it's harnessing collective computer power to do just that.

Community groups are posting bail for indigent defendants, undermining the original principles of bail, and pushing for criminal justice reform.

If there was ever an example of how economic incentives can warp the institutions of justice, local jails are it.

Defendants who can't make bail, regardless of their crime, are four times more likely to be sentenced to time in prison. So much for innocent until proven guilty.