Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Restricting cash bail once had bipartisan support in Georgia. But that was before the coronavirus pandemic and a surge in violent crime.

In recent years, the Cuyahoga County court system has drastically cut its use of cash bail. That means fewer people sit in jail while awaiting trial. The shift followed calls to dismantle a bail ...

When Camilla Broderick was arrested for selling drugs, the court set her bail at $2,500. She could walk out of jail before her trial - if she had the cash. "I was able to pay bail because my dad ran ...

It’s been nearly five years since cash bail was removed for people charged with most kinds of misdemeanor crimes in Harris County, Texas, home to Houston. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd headed to Harris ...

Many Americans haven’t heard of cash bail. But the idea is central to an election year battle over racism, policing, and mass incarceration. When arrested on suspicion of committing a crime, everyone ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Civil Rights Corps founder Alec Karakatsanis about the movement to eliminate cash bail on a national level, after Illinois abolished cash bail this week. Illinois just ...

Jose Daniel Alvarez Nunez stood before Kenosha County Court Commissioner Daniel E. Kellum for six minutes on Friday, October ...

There's been years of debate over cash bail and its impact on the justice system and people who have to pay cash to stay out of jail before trial. Illinois became the first state to ban the practice.