AUSTIN, Texas — During an emotional hearing on Wednesday, the Texas Senate Committee on Criminal Justice voted to send four bills aimed at reforming the state's bail bond system to the full chamber.

Bail reform has been a yearslong priority for Gov. Greg Abbott, who has named the issue an emergency item for the last few regular legislative sessions. The Texas Legislature this year passed a ...

Dallas rapper Yella Beezy, whose legal name is Markies Conway, has been released from the Dallas County Jail after posting bond that was reduced on Thursday to $750,000. Beezy has been charged in an ...

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

A prisoner is taken into the sally port of North Tower Detention Facility in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas. Nathan Hunsinger / Staff Photographer Texas has taken baby steps to overhaul its ...

Find out more about our series Breaking the Bond here. When Michelle Chapa started a new job managing a cell phone store in the Heights neighborhood of Houston, she didn’t expect it to become a target ...

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Texas lawmakers are pushing for major changes in how cash bail is set, and they have a familiar target: Harris County. At issue is who decides how much money someone must pay in order to get out of ...

The bond amount set for the alleged killer of Las Palapas founder Edward “Ron” Acosta has sparked outrage. But it points to a larger conversation about how bond is determined in Texas and how much ...

Texas voters on Election Day will consider a proposed constitutional amendment that would broaden the circumstances in which judges can deny bail to criminal defendants awaiting trial on serious ...