President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday, Aug. 25, to eliminate cashless bail citing public safety concerns and threatening to withhold state and federal funding to local and state ...
The New York government could pass its own bill as soon as this spring.Advocates for criminal justice reform say that ending the bail system would help curb mass incarceration. Abolishing bail, ...
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 ...