Bail Reform
California has been at the forefront of soft on crime policies for well over a decade. And what has it brought the state and its residents? An increase crime and a decrease in defendant accountability.
Bail Reform
If you are a resident of California, you are most likely familiar with the state’s love affair with criminals and nonsensical, victim hating criminal justice policies.
Bail Reform
In a recent op-ed on the Crime Survivors Journal website, veteran victim advocate Patricia Wenskunas of Crime Survivors condemns U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui for apologizing to Cole Tomas Allen...
Bail Reform
As someone who represents one of the nation’s oldest and most experienced bail sureties, I can tell you that the team at AIA Surety invests heavily in defending, promoting, and protecting the bail profession.
News
California continues to care more about criminals than its own taxpaying residents. In a recent article, Yolo County District Attorney, Jeff Reisig, discusses California’s dangerous elder parole law and failed approach to public safety.
Bail Reform
In a recent powerful opinion piece, longtime victim advocate, Patricia Wenskunas of Crime Survivors, argues that funding originally intended to support real crime victims is quietly disappearing
Bail Bonds
A recent opinion column in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser by John Deutzman strongly opposes Hawaii’s latest bail reform legislation, House Bill 2413, warning that the measure goes too far in reshaping Hawaii's pretrial release practices
Bail
All over the country, people are becoming the victims of sophisticated jail scams. In usual fashion, when there is something negatively impacting or threatening the jurisdiction's criminal justice system, the first ones to speak up and warn the public are licensed bail bondsmen.
Bail
A single philanthropic funder bankrolled the advocacy groups whose reports are now cited as "independent research" in the GR9 Cover Sheet filed with the Washington Supreme Court.
Victim advocacy
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
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
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...