The long national debate over cash bail reignited in summer 2025 after the White House issued an executive order in August threatening to pull federal funding from jurisdictions that allow cashless ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday threatening to withhold or revoke federal funding to local and state governments that offer cashless bail, arguing that it is a threat to ...

In most places in America, people have long had the right, if accused of a crime, to buy their freedom back from the government. Cash bail — the requirement that a person who has been arrested pay the ...

When Camilla Broderick was arrested for selling drugs, the court set her bail at $2,500. She could walk out of jail before her trial - if she had the cash. "I was able to pay bail because my dad ran ...

A 23-year-old who walked out of Hennepin County jail on $100 cash bail is now in federal custody and awaiting deportation, in ...

Earlier this week, Donald Trump identified another threat to “Americans’ safety and well-being,” along the same lines as the threat that prompted him to send military vehicles and armed soldiers onto ...

People awaiting trial in Illinois will soon no longer need to come up with cash bail. The Illinois Supreme Court upheld this week a 2021 law that eliminated the cash bail system. "Someone's experience ...

The steel-bar secured “dock” in the Department 8 courtroom is seen in Gordon Schaber Sacramento County Courthouse on Friday, July 29, 2022, in downtown Sacramento. The Trump administration threatens ...