Bail Bonds
Texas Attorney Ken Good Explains How Proposition 3 Will be Applied in Recent Murder Case
Bail attorney and Professional Bondmen of Texas board member Ken Good explained that this provision shifts more accountability to prosecutors...
Eric Granof
Bail Bonds
The Proliferation of Bail Bond Scams: Impostors Posing as Agents Prey on Families in Distress
A phone rings. The caller claims your son, daughter, or grandchild has just been arrested and is sitting in jail. They identify themselves as a licensed bail bondsman or even a deputy or pretrial specialist.
Bail Bonds
Part 4: The Business of Bail Reform - Who Profits When Commercial Bail Dies
Arnold Ventures has invested $142 million in a wide range of criminal justice reforms since 2011, including $48 million for pretrial justice through the National Partnership for Pretrial Justice.
Bail Bonds
Bail Reform and Pretrial Release: Why Serious Crimes Demand Financially Secured Bonds — Not Cashless Bail
In the heated bail reform debate on the topic of pretrial release, the recent article “Bail That Fits the Case: Why Serious Crimes Demand Serious Bond Consideration”, Cary Carlisle, President of the Florida Bail Agents Association, makes a compelling case...
Bail Bonds
Bail Reform's Expensive Promise of "Fairness"
In the ongoing debate surrounding bail reform and pretrial release, many jurisdictions have shifted away from traditional financially secured bail bonds toward court-supervised pretrial release programs that emphasize “fairness”...
Victim advocacy
Victims of Crime Want Justice and Accountability not Soft on Crime Coddling
The Prison Policy Initiative's narrative gaslights survivors by manufacturing a consensus that victims support lighter sentences and alternatives to incarceration. This way of thinking not only undermines public safety but also dismisses the trauma of violent offenses as a mere “myth.”
Bail Bonds
Part 3: The Business of Bail Reform Series - Who Profits When Commercial Bail Dies
The latest article in the Business of Bail Reform Series by JL Fullerton, covers electronic monitoring. When Illinois became the first state to eliminate all forms of secured bail in September 2023, the Office of Statewide Pretrial Services...
Bail Bonds
Preventing a Failure to Appear Involves More Than Just a Text Message
Bail reform proponents have recently been focusing a lot of their articles and online narrative on the effective nature of text messages. In their opinion, if you want to get someone who is accused of a crime to show up for court all you need to do is send them a text message.
criminal justice reform
California’s Elder Parole Law is Letting Another Child Predator out of Prison
Israel Ceja, convicted in 2000 of 20 counts of forcible rape along with assault with a firearm, child endangerment, and lewd acts against his 11-year-old stepdaughter, was recommended for early release on January 29, 2026...
Bail
AI Jail Scams Exposed: How Scammers Fake Arrests with Voices, Spoofed Calls & Fake Bail Agents – And How to Stay Safe
Scammers are increasingly exploiting high-stress family emergencies, particularly fake claims that a loved one is in jail, by using sophisticated tactics like AI-generated voices cloned from online audio clips
Bail Bonds
The Holly Act: Emphasizing Accountability and Putting a Stop to Low-Bonds in Ohio
Last summer, a violent street brawl in downtown Cincinnati gained national attention through viral videos, leaving several people injured—including Holly, an innocent bystander who was knocked unconscious.
Bail Bonds
The Prison Policy Initiative's War on Crime Victims
For years, this so called “non-partisan” group, and its broad network of other like-minded activist organizations have organized and focused their efforts on promoting bail reform, cashless bail and anti-crime victim policies.