2024 American Bail Agent Coalition Conference
Save the Date… The 2024 ABAC Conference will be November 13-14, 2024 Stay tuned here for more information…Read More →
Save the Date… The 2024 ABAC Conference will be November 13-14, 2024 Stay tuned here for more information…Read More →
Repeat, Violent Felons Re-Offend At 66.6% Rate In Study Of New York Bail System Those Repeat, Violent Felons Released On Bail Reform Were 60.7% More Likely To Commit A Firearms Offense A new study recently made findings that are so obvious we have to wonder what took so long; NewRead More →
Turn Out The Lights, The Party’s Over: District Attorney Kim Ogg Routed In Re-Election Bid In Houston Once the darling of billionaire donors who abandoned her after their criminal justice reform litmus test failed reality – after choosing criminal enforcement over criminal justice reform – District Attorney Kim Ogg wasRead More →
Georgia Doubles Down on Ban of Get-Out-Of-Jail Free Cards “The movement to eliminate bail was always misguided and has jeopardized public safety in many big cities. Let’s hope more states and cities follow Georgia’s lead.” – WSJ, Georgia Rethinks Easy Bail For those of you wondering when the current crimeRead More →
“End Cash Bail” Flops on Broadway Fifteen Time Offender Out on Zero Bail Violently Breaks Wrist of The Lion King Violinist The New York Bail Reform law, what we might term “End Cash Bail,” has reached an utterly new low: allowing repeat defendants out on automatic zero bails to thenRead More →
Illinois Supreme Court Kicks off Bail Reform By Denying Due Process in Criminal Cases Well, we know know that the Supreme Court is allowing the Illinois Legislature to get away with murder by eliminating bail without having to change the state constitution. Unfortunately, the reality that the legislature did notRead More →
Activists Lose Their Shirts in Texas Bail Cases You want to talk about having a court render your movement as a mere bagatelle, look at the slap in the face the United States Court of Appeals for the Firth Circuit just dealt to the Civil Rights Corps. We’ll cut throughRead More →
Public Demands New Direction on Criminal Justice: Enforcing the Law and End Get out of Jail Free for Violent Defendants A decade ago, when the “end cash bail” movement began, I agreed to oppose it because I thought it was entirely bankrupt from a civil rights perspective and nothing shortRead More →
Bail Project Loses Appeal Against Indiana Commissioner of Insurance Paving Way for National Regulation The national Bail Project, who posts bail for criminal defendants and was recently regulated by the Indiana Legislature, has lost its efforts to stop the law in the Federal United States Court of Appeals for theRead More →
Illinois Supreme Court Re-Writes 86,197 Days of Bail Legal History in Less than 100, Setting Up A Collision Course With an Explosion in Recidivism For a generation, the Illinois legislature will now fight a futile political battle over the preventative detention net that they can absolutely never get right, becauseRead More →
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