Bail bond companies in North Carolina could keep their money in more cases, and an emerging practice of charity bail would get more government scrutiny in a bill moving this week at the North Carolina ...

Senate Joint Resolution 1 calls for an amendment to allow judges to deny bail to people charged with certain violent, sexual, or trafficking crimes.

Everybody assumes bondsmen are millionaires,Grimes said Thursday from his New Bern office. But you can't rely on bail bonding for income. The powers of attorney are what give us the financial ...

A “citizen’s arrest� in Haskell County led to four people behind bars. The sheriff’s office says it all started when a bail bondsman recruited help making an arrest.

The unlicensed bail agent accused of the fatal shooting of a Palm Springs man appeared in court today. The preliminary hearing continued with one witness, a licensed bail agent, testifying in his ...

Tennessee lawmakers are eyeing modest tweaks to the state's privatized bail bond system, where lawsuits and data show poorer people charged even with nonviolent crimes often can't afford to get out of ...

Two men hired by a bail bondsman to make a citizen’s arrest, are in jail themselves tonight, looking at a kidnapping charge. The Haskell County Sheriff’s Office also arrested the bondsman who ...

West Tennessee bail bond agent Shelly Alexander wept Tuesday as she told lawmakers how she once refused to bail her daughter out of jail for a meth arrest. Alexander knew her daughter had a habit ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bail bill into law Monday requiring people accused of violent crimes to pay cash to get out of jail. Senate Bill 6, dubbed “the Damon Allen Act� in honor of slain State ...

Bail bonds companies in North Carolina could keep their money in more cases, and an emerging practice of charity bail would get more government scrutiny, in a bill moving this week at the North ...