The issue of bail bonds reform has become red meat for Gov. Greg Abbott, who’s been on social media using issues in the system to criticize judges in Harris County, Texas’ most populous county. The ...

Dallas rapper Yella Beezy was granted reduced bail Thursday morning in his recent murder indictment for allegedly ordering the killing of rapper Melvin Nobles, known as MO3. Court documents say Beezy, ...

Yella Beezy talks during a photoshoot at The Dallas Morning News photo studio. The rapper was released on bond Friday, March 28, after he was indicted on a charge of capital murder in the 2020 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN)- Bail bond reform was named one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency items for the 2025 legislative session, which he announced on Sunday at the State of the State address. Abbott earmarks ...

President Trump is trying to end cashless bail. The reform was to help low-risk, low-income defendants, but it opened a ...

A federal judge has begun sentencing dozens accused of using fake pay stubs to secure fraudulent bail bonds through Houston's AABLE Bail Bonds.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion in August to vacate the ODonnell Consent Decree, a first-of-its-kind bail ...

The North Tower Detention Facility (left) is part of the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, photographed on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in Dallas. No doubt that the cash bail system in this state has often been ...

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