Michael D. Morrison is the 2026 PBUS National Bail Agent of the Year, President of the Mississippi Bail Agents Association, and a 35-year bail professional writing on public safety, pretrial policy, and criminal justice accountability across America
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The Profession Is No Longer Accepting Declarations as a Substitute for Results What many state and national bail associations have finally recognized is that the profession can no longer survive on declarations alone. For years, organizations measured success by slogans, membership counts, and conference attendance — or simply by stating they
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The funders behind bail reform now lead with cops and clearance rates — because their original mission collapsed and the country rejected it. Visit Arnold Ventures' criminal justice page today and you'll see a police officer high-fiving a child. You'll see press releases applauding the
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The Bail Project cited the Marshall Project's reporting — then erased every fact that explained the judge's decision. The Bail Project published a piece this month celebrating the California Supreme Court's Kowalczyk ruling. Their headline case: an unhoused man jailed on $75,000 bail over
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Vera’s latest attack on federal enforcement erases crime victims, buries a 40 percent crime drop in its own showcase city, and never mentions the nine-figure federal contract riding on the outcome. On July 17, the Vera Institute of Justice published a piece titled “Out-of-Control Federal Law
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The Bail Project’s latest "myth-busting" only works if you never ask who got hurt — and never look at who’s actually in the jail tonight. On June 25, The Bail Project published another article designed to make America doubt its own eyes. The headline: "Most
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The life of a real bail agent — behind the scenes. This story was first shared as eight separate works, published one at a time, following the life of a bail agent through a single week. It is presented here in full, as one story — because that is how the week
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One vote in Congress, one number in a poll, and one question every free man should be asking himself. I've been asking myself a question I never thought I'd have to ask. If America ever stopped being free — really free, the kind of free where a
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People wait days for a first bail hearing because no judge has looked at the case. That is a failure of courts and calendars—and every state the Bail Project praises for fixing it kept financial bail. The Bail Project has published an article describing a genuine problem in the
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The Bail Project's latest client story asks readers to condemn a judge's decision while withholding every fact the judge was required to consider. The Bail Project has published another carefully constructed story intended to convince readers that financial bail is cruel, unnecessary, and responsible for nearly
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On July 10, the Vera Institute of Justice published a piece titled “How to Talk About So-Called Teen Takeovers.” The title is the most honest thing about it. This is not research. It is a messaging guide, written by a senior writer and filed under the organization's
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Can America get better health care at a lower cost — or are we stuck choosing between two broken ideas? By Mike Morrison Ask any working family what happened to their health insurance this year. The premium went up. The deductible went up. And when somebody finally got sick, a company
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Most Americans have heard the words "excessive bail shall not be required," but far fewer have stopped to ask why those words were placed in the Bill of Rights. They were not written to make the criminal justice system more convenient, and they were not written for the