Bond Forfeiture and Remission: Getting Your Money Back After a Skip
A forfeiture is not always the end of the story. Remission lets an agency recover some or all of a paid bond, but the clock and the rules ar...
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Florida's Statewide Bond Schedule Takes Aim at Justice by Geography
A uniform statewide bond schedule is meant to end the gap where the same charge drew wildly different bonds from one county to the next....
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Licensing Reciprocity: Working Bonds Across State Lines
A license in one state does not automatically travel to the next. What reciprocity does and does not cover for agents working near a border....
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The Eighth Amendment and 'Excessive Bail': What It Actually Protects
The Constitution bars excessive bail, but it does not guarantee a right to be released on any amount. The distinction shapes the whole debat...
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Tennessee Voters Will Decide on Expanded Preventive Detention
A constitutional amendment cleared the legislature that would let judges hold defendants for a long list of offenses. It now goes to a publi...
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The Pendulum Swings Back: States Rebuild Pretrial Detention Powers
After a wave of cashless mandates, more than a quarter of right-to-bail states have moved to expand who can be held before trial....
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