“We have a system that is on the brink of overall collapse,” says Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery, a former Philadelphia judge.(1) Among large urban counties, Philadelphia has the nation’s lowest felony-conviction rate.
Over the course of the past few months, AIA has sent a mailing to legislators in all states that have pretrial release agencies. The mailing included a letter from ALEC and a copy of AIA’s “Taxpayer Funded Pretrial Release: A Failed System” booklet.
House Bill 2528 was introduced in the Kansas House of Representatives in January 2010. On April 28, 2010, it passed all necessary committees with a vote of 112-10-3 and is now being sent to the Governor to sign into law.
In Part 3 of our ongoing series on Philadelphia’s 10% Deposit Bail System, we look at witness intimidation. Prosecutors, detectives and lawyers have said that witness fear has become a factor…
The Michigan Professional Bail Agents Association met in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 20, 2010, with the goal of brainstorming ideas to help preserve the commercial bail industry…
The PBT second quarter meeting was held April 15-16, 2010 in Houston, Texas. The two day event kicked off…
In Part 2 of our series on Philadelphia, we take a look at how criminals are defying the broken 10% bail system.
Bail bond agents have been walking a thin line between advertising and solicitation in Santa Ana, CA. Outside local jails and police stations they hand out fliers or park their SUVs with large graphics promoting their services.
Last week the Washington State Bail Agents Association held its semi-annual conference. This was an election year for members. Elected as President of this Association…
A new initiative in Colorado has been launched to fight pretrial release by the American’s for the Preservation of Bail…
