A new state Supreme Court ruling last week narrowed instances when bail can be withheld, and prohibits unaffordable bail, but experts differ on how sweeping the impact will be.

Yolo County Superior Court Judge Danette C. Brown imposed $500 bail on an accused individual, despite defense arguments ...

President Donald Trump's latest move in his crime crackdown is an executive order to end cashless bail, and he threatened to withhold federal funding from states that don’t end those policies. The Aug ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's back to the drawing board for more than two dozen Los Angeles County cities who say they want to put an end to the controversial zero-bail policy. The cities filed for an ...

President Trump’s executive order wields a cutoff of federal funds as a threat to pressure jurisdictions like Washington, D.C., to stop releasing defendants without forcing them to post a payment, ...

MANILA, Philippines – Community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and church worker Marielle Domequil urged the Court of Appeals (CA) to allow them to post bail after a Tacloban City court denied their ...

This story has been updated. If Adam Lanza lived, he would have been entitled to bail. That’s because the Connecticut Constitution says that courts can deny bail only to people accused of committing ...