The House advanced a measure that would ask voters to amend the state Constitution to tighten the state’s bail laws, setting ...

A class-action lawsuit seeks to end Riverside County's use of a cash bail system to detain people awaiting trial, alleging ...

While Gov. Greg Abbott steps up his push for stricter bail rules, critics seek a balance between the rights of the accused and the goal of keeping dangerous defendants behind bars. The Republican ...

A nonattorney New York jurist is resigning from the bench amid a probe that he made inappropriate remarks while presiding over several criminal cases, had told local officials that litigants in ...

For months, the state has avoided releasing much-needed data on individuals who were arraigned in New York before lawmakers passed bail reform. But newly available data confirm what critics have long ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Next week marks one year since Illinois outlawed cash bail, and advocates and critics of the change have been waiting patiently to see it if has been successful — or as some ...

New Delhi: Granting bail but imposing excessive conditions on an individual is like taking away with the left hand what was given by the right, the Supreme Court observed on Thursday while stating ...

The Supreme Court emphasized that excessively onerous bail conditions undermine bail's purpose, ruling that bail conditions should be reasonable and proportionate. The Supreme Court on Thursday ...

The first 10 Amendments, or Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1789. Amendment VIII states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Hamilton County Prosecutor Melissa Powers says low bonds from judges are becoming a public safety issue. Powers singled out Hamilton County Judge Samantha Silverstein on social ...

A San Mateo Superior Court judge set his bail at $75,000, an amount Kowalczyk, homeless and unemployed, could not pay. The charges were that he used someone else’s credit card to buy a $7 ...