The Bail Project News Today

A new law in Georgia expands the use of cash bail and attacks charitable bail funds, one of the only lifelines that low-income residents who are arrested have.

The Kentucky House passed sweeping criminal justice legislation on Thursday known as the Safer Kentucky Act. The bill now heads to the Senate.

(St. Cloud, MN) -- Bail is set a three million dollars for a man accused in a deadly shooting at a party last month in St. Cloud. Twenty-six-year-old Deionte Parker

Dominic Fike partnered with the Bail Project, a nonprofit organization that provides people with free bail, to raise awareness about the prison system. The artist traveled to his hometown of Naples, Florida, to help bail out people from Collier County Jail, where he was once incarcerated himself.

Two of the three judges on a federal appeals court panel disagreed with the nonprofit's argument that an Indiana law illegally singled them out.

The Bail Project hasn't bailed out anyone in Indy since a law went into effect last year. A lawsuit could determine the nonprofit's fate in Indiana.

The Bail Project, an organization with a stated goal of bail reform, has discontinued its chapter in Las Vegas after coming under scrutiny for posting the bail for a criminal who ended up shooting a restaurant worker.

A now, a lawsuit...

A bail reform group discontinued its Las Vegas operations after being sued for helping bail out a repeat offender who shot a waiter.

With hundreds of thousands of individuals locked up in jails almost daily, many find it challenging to pay bail.