Lately, there’s been local discussion on some well-publicized cases of defendants controversially being released on bail. As the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office continues to prioritize the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (LSU) - Two bills dealing with the release of incarcerated individuals were heard in a House committee Wednesday, with one passing and the other being deferred in the face of ...

When an individual is arrested and does not have cash at hand to pay the entire bail ordered by the court, a bail bond serves as a great savior because it lets the accused go home during the pendency ...

The revised bail hearing procedure has meant a savings to Tulsa County in reduced pretrial incarceration costs, Brewster said. He estimated that 150 to 200 people at any given time were held in the ...

In an effort to make court procedure more understandable, Raleigh County Circuit Court Judge H.L. Kirkpatrick III will discuss all of the steps, from arrest to appeal, in a series of articles in ...

Baltimore County corrections officials are renewing a proposal to switch from in-person bail reviews to video proceedings, a move they said would boost courthouse security and cut back transportation ...

Bowing to pressure from lawyers for poor defendants, New Orleans Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell agreed this week to overhaul the way he sets bail. In an effort to prevent people from being jailed ...

The drunken and unrepentant illegal immigrant charged in the Christmas Day crash that killed a man may never face a judge or jury. That’s a sickening prospect, but a realistic one. Sources in the ...