Massive mural in Third Ward that focuses on voting rights by artist Mathieu JN Baptiste was first in a series of ...

Dozens of low-level offenders in Harris County, Texas, are being released from jail under a new no-cash bail system after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas upheld a District Court ruling that ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at pushing Illinois to reverse its law that eliminated cash bail. The order calls on the U.S. attorney general to come up with a list of ...

The long national debate over cash bail reignited in summer 2025 after the White House issued an executive order in August threatening to pull federal funding from jurisdictions that allow cashless ...

In 2015, a pregnant and homeless 30-year-old woman spent 135 days in an Illinois jail because she stole two plums and three candy bars from a Save A Lot store. That same year, a 41-year-old Illinois ...

People awaiting trial in Illinois will soon no longer need to come up with cash bail. The Illinois Supreme Court upheld this week a 2021 law that eliminated the cash bail system. "Someone's experience ...

States are making major progress in reforming our nation’s cash bail system. An estimated half-million Americans are in county jails right now, because they can’t afford to pay bail. Critics call the ...

TUCSON (KVOA) - Over the past several years, the Digging Deeper team has told you about a number of cases where felons with a violent background were released back out on the streets on ...

Earlier this week, Donald Trump identified another threat to "Americans' safety and well-being," along the same lines as the threat that prompted him to send military vehicles and armed soldiers onto ...