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The Northwest Arkansas Community College Foundation announced Thursday it has added two members to its Board of Directors.

The Bail Project Covered Bail Earlier This Year For Man Accused Of Stabbing Officers

MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee branch of Black Lives Matter is accused of trying to raise millions of dollars for Waukesha mass murder suspect Darrell Brooks, whose bail is set at $5 million. A previous GoFundMe account was shut down last week after the platform said that it violated its terms of servic

Most major bail reform advocates did not respond to Fox News' requests for comment on the $5 million cash bail on which Darrell Brooks, Jr., the suspect in the Waukesha Christmas parade vehicle onslaught that killed five adults and one child, is being held.

Mike Milton believes his organization will not only reduce violence in the community but help achieve an even bigger goal: Black freedom.

12,600: On any given day, as many as 12,600 Ohioans are held in jail as they await trial, compared to 3,000 in 1978 — driven mostly by bail set by local courts, even though overall crime rates have gone down. Most of the people held in jail pretrial cannot afford...

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The merging of location tracking and biometrics has increased the potential for criminalization through technology.

Room for paying attention to the more serious offenses, but i want to be clear about that as well. the presumption of innocence is a bedrock principle of our criminal legal system and it must be protected at all times. use of cash bail is not effective. it is not necessary to have people return to court. it certainly does not ensure public safety. when we talk about returning to court, for example, with the use of cash bail, we know that our work at the bail project, for example, in providing fr...

Joining me marilyn mosby, states attorney for baltimore, maryland, and twi la carter, national legal and policy director for the bail project. thank you to both of you for being here. you made the very progressive decision in baltimore to stop prosecuting low level crimes. thats helped clear the backlog in baltimore. tell me how thats been working out the past few months. >> so what i can say is i think its really important to give context for this situation. you have a newly elected prosecutor ...