Attorney Ron Sokol answers questions about bail – setting, reducing or denying – in California and Los Angeles County in ...

Just a few months ago, newly elected California GOP Chair Corrin Rankin was focused on upping her party’s game in the deep-blue state to make inroads in the 2026 midterms and prevent Democrats ...

A: Article 1, Section 12, of the California Constitution sets forth that an individual “shall be released on bail by sufficient sureties,” except in certain cases. These include capital crimes, ...

A Yolo County man remains in custody due to mounting delays in two overlapping cases, with questions raised over postponed ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Of all our presidents, is Donald Trump the foremost expert on bail? If it’s a matter of personal experience, then yes.

The population in America’s big jails and state prisons plunged by 170,000 this spring amid the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters has found in a survey of facilities around the country. All told, ...

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 ...

After a Ukrainian woman who fled war in her home country was stabbed to death on a commuter train in North Carolina, the ...