On Sept. 18, Illinois will become the first in the nation to end the use of cash bail as a condition of pretrial release - a move proponents say will keep the poor from unfairly languishing behind ...

To require cash bail is to criminalize poverty. That’s the kind of bogus claim you’d expect to hear from an overzealous criminal defense lawyer. To hear it, instead, from a prosecutor is quite ...

CENTER. TWO LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE TEAMING UP TO HELP ALLEVIATE OVERCROWDING AT LOUISVILLE METRO CORRECTIONS AND ADDRESS DISPARITIESN I THE CASH BAIL SYSTEM. IT COMES A STATES LIKE ILLINOIS ARE ...

For all the death, misery and havoc that COVID-19 inflicted during its first three years, the pandemic did bring one short-lived benefit to the criminal justice system, at least in Los Angeles County.

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 ...