Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bail Project is a national organization that works in 37 jurisdictions across the country that helps people in need of bail.

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month threatening to withhold federal funding from states and localities that have adopted "cashless bail" policies, he escalated a national ...

When criminal charges are brought before a magistrate, the issue of deciding whether to grant bail and release conditions becomes inevitable. Bail is simply the money posted with the court to release ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump wants to eliminate “cashless bail” in the nation’s capital and across the country. But what exactly does that mean, and what is the controversy all about? “Cashless bail” is a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

NEW YORK — In 2017, around 33,000 criminal defendants in New York couldn’t post bail at their initial hearing. They went straight from a courthouse to jail simply because they were poor. The New York ...