A fight over replacing bail with "risk assessment tools" has split reform advocates. Some fear the change will worsen anti-Black discrimination.

A Bail Reform Tool Intended to Curb Mass Incarceration Has Only Replicated Biases in the Criminal Justice System . Kentucky was an early adopter of risk assessments in an effort to release more ...

Bronx Acting Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Zimmerman called the state’s bail reform statutes “a confusing mess” — and cited the Grateful Dead to explain why he was reducing … ...

The House took up Senate Joint Resolution 1 on third reading, which would require judges to deny bail for immigrants in Texas illegally who are accused of a felony. It did not get enough support ...

WESTMINSTER, Maryland (WBAL) — A Carroll County man accused of murdering his father faced a judge on Tuesday. Ravi Pansuriya, 29, is being held without bail on first-degree murder charges ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House advanced legislation on Monday that would make it easier to keep people charged with violent crimes in jail while they await trial and give judges more tools to ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia police officer charged in the shooting death of a driver last month is back in custody following the revocation of his bail. Officer Mark Dial was taken into ...