New York's busiest appeals court has ruled that the crime of making a terroristic threat, a class D felony, is not eligible for bail under the state's bail reform laws. The split decision Friday from ...

Our city deserves a bail system that not only ensures that defendants return for court appearances, but that does not punish people for their poverty, is not racially discriminatory, does not distort ...

In most places in America, people have long had the right, if accused of a crime, to buy their freedom back from the government. Cash bail — the requirement that a person who has been arrested pay the ...

Senate Bill 1618 requires judges to use a validated risk assessment tool to assign a risk rating, before a judge decides whether to release a person.