Crime has steadily declined since the 1980s and 1990s, yet pretrial detention has quadrupled—today, nearly half a million ...

According to the Judicial Branch website, bail is the amount of money defendants must post to be released from custody while ...

Once the bail or bail bond is delivered, the defendant is released until trial. There are several different types of bail bonds, including but not limited to: The bail bond amount is determined by ...

"I don't disagree with that," Reisig said. "The whole point of this study is not to debate the merits of some type of bail reform. It's to look at the issue of zero bail where people are being ...