Bail reform’s goal of reducing the number of people who are jailed simply because they cannot afford cash bail has also been ...

State Sen. Zellnor Myrie and Assembly Member Micah Lasher introduced a bill to help prosecutors comply with the law, while ...

A year after a sudden funding crunch placed a pretrial monitoring program at risk, Gov. Wes Moore has allocated $3.2 million ...

The House passed an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday on a vote of 263-156, teeing up major immigration ...

It’s been over five years since New York State implemented contentious legislation that ended the use of cash bail for most ...

The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage will host a £25,000-a-head fundraiser later this month, weeks after his new treasurer - the property billionaire Nick Candy - pledged to secure more money for ...

That kind of money was "like a million dollars to me ... But when they tried to push bail reform at the state level, legislators dismissed the harms of cash bail as a Chicago problem. So in 2019, more ...

But Hochul didn’t address one longstanding Adams priority in her speech: Bail reform. While acknowledging the problem of recidivism in the criminal justice system, Hochul spoke of the need to work ...

PARIS, Jan 14 (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday opened the door to renegotiating a disputed pension reform in a bid to win over left-wing lawmakers he needs to pass the ...

The Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law on Jan. 5, following years of lobbying efforts from groups representing firefighters, police, teachers and other affected workers with pensions.

Just a year ago, her fate would likely have been determined by whether she had enough money to post bail. But Will County Judge Matthew Bertani, a white man with hawklike features and a pile of ...