The Bail Project released a report showing that states are quietly changing their constitutions to make it easier to keep ...

On the last day of January in 1961, a young civil rights activist led eight Black students into McCrory’s variety store in Rock Hill, South Carolina. They all took places at the Whites-only lunch ...

ESOPUS, N.Y. – A state lawmaker from Esopus has become the only regional Democrat to speak out on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s revisions to bail reform. Assemblywoman Sarahana Shrestha said over the weekend ...

Sarah Knight speaks on April 30, 2025 about her son Jaleen Anderson, who died after he was denied bail and transferred to a private correctional facility in Louisiana. The American Civil Liberties ...

NEW YORK-- Civil rights leaders held a fiery rally on Wednesday to pressure state lawmakers to give judges more discretion to put the bad guys behind bars. Cell doors will close on more repeat ...

Riverside County sheriff's deputies stand guard at the county courthouse during an election-related demonstration in November 2020. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) A cadre of civil rights groups ...

Rebecca Gill was out of options. At 39 years old, she was arrested and though not convicted of a crime and presumed innocent, confined to a jail cell. This happened because of a cash bail requirement ...

REDWOOD CITY — A pair of civil rights organizations have told the San Mateo County Superior Court that its criminal arraignments are routinely ignoring a California Supreme Court mandate to grant more ...

A cadre of civil rights groups brought a lawsuit late Wednesday challenging Riverside County's use of cash bail to detain people as they await trial, citing squalid conditions inside the county's ...