Police and prosecutors keep misusing proceeds of civil forfeiture. Residents of Bibb County, Georgia received a curious magazine in their mailboxes. The “Justice Journal” featured the county’s ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Louisville judge on Thursday lowered the amount of bond a local pastor will have to forfeit because defendant Vernon Jackson fled his attempted murder trial in May shortly ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office has allowed nearly 1,300 felony defendants remain fugitives without having to forfeit their bonds after they failed to appear for ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Louisville minister forfeited a $70,000 bond Thursday because a defendant on trial for attempted murder fled before the jury reached a verdict, and, in doing so, violated ...

A majority of the Supreme Court ruled that Missy Wardlaw can stay on the ballot despite having a "GUILTY-BOND FORFEITED" disposition for her hot-check "infamous crime," which precludes someone ...