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 ...

The Supreme Court raised concerns about lower courts denying bail in minor offences, despite completed investigations. They highlighted an increasing trend of such cases reaching the apex court.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simes, PhD, an associate professor in Boston University’s School of Arts and Sciences. The U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment states that “excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines ...