President Donald Trump's latest move in his crime crackdown is an executive order to end cashless bail, and he threatened to withhold federal funding from states that don’t end those policies. The Aug ...

President Donald Trump on Monday signed two executive orders targeting cashless bail, claiming that the practice in certain Democratic cities is leading to criminal activity. “That was when the big ...

President Trump’s executive order wields a cutoff of federal funds as a threat to pressure jurisdictions like Washington, D.C., to stop releasing defendants without forcing them to post a payment, ...

On Nov. 21, 2024, we will memorialize the third anniversary of the Waukesha Christmas parade attack. The Waukesha community continues to heal from the violence unleashed that day, but this community ...

Tension over further rollbacks to the 2019 bail reform law was one of the most controversial sticking points of budget negotiations between the governor and legislative leaders this year. In the end, ...

NEW YORK -- Gov. Kathy Hochul is blaming judges for misunderstanding bail laws, while some critics argue it's the governor who doesn't understand her own law. Hochul is trying to blame judges for ...

Indiana voters will decide this fall whether to amend the state constitution to allow judges to deny bail for certain ...