NEW YORK (WABC) -- Officials are calling for changes to be made to stop recidivism, erase the perception among criminals that there are no meaningful consequences for crime and restore the ...

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NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- President Trump this week took a victory lap after his acquittal in his impeachment trial. He let his opponents have it and described them several times as: 'vicious, horrible ...

It’s been more than five years since New York State implemented contentious legislation that ended the use of cash bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies. In that time, the controversial ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) —Bail reform, which took effect in New York in 2020, limits when judges can set cash bail. As a result, many people are released while they wait for court. Supporters argue that it ...

Washington, DC, the immediate target of Trump’s ire, removed cash bail in most cases in 1992. Democratic-controlled states like New York, California and Illinois have passed bail reform laws in recent ...

Flynn and Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia held a news conference blasting the decision and blamed bail reform – the series of measures that went into effect in 2020 in New York that eliminated money ...

Following a recent spike in anti-Semitic incidents across the city, a pair of Brooklyn lawmakers have moved to amend the state’s newly enacted bail reforms by making hate crimes bail-eligible. “This ...

In 2015, a pregnant and homeless 30-year-old woman spent 135 days in an Illinois jail because she stole two plums and three candy bars from a Save A Lot store. That same year, a 41-year-old Illinois ...

Almost one year ago, I wrote regarding the need for serious reform to New York state’s laws on bail and pretrial detention, which became effective in 2020. I called for judicial discretion to be ...