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A $150-million-a-year operation, most of it taxpayer-funded, has built its entire argument around the accused. The person actually harmed by crime never makes the page. Read enough of the Vera Institute of Justice, and you begin to notice who is missing. Not the defendant — the defendant
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The United States Constitution included protections surrounding bail for a reason. Our Founding Fathers understood that an accusation is not a conviction and that liberty could not depend upon a person’s wealth, influence, or station in life. The prohibition against excessive bail reflected a larger American promise: every person
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Before Americans hand the government their ownership and their freedom, they ought to look at the last country that did — and at what it looks like now. How does one of the most prosperous nations in the hemisphere end up in the dark, standing in line for eggs, watching its
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The real question isn’t capitalism versus socialism. It’s whether the citizen still controls the government — or whether the government has quietly begun to control the citizen. Why are so many politicians trying to change the political system that made America the freest and most successful nation in the
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Statehouses across the country spent 2025 and 2026 modernizing pretrial law. Ours let the moment pass. Across America, state legislatures spent 2025 and 2026 taking a hard look at pretrial release. Lawmakers debated violent offender detention, strengthened constitutional provisions, improved electronic monitoring, increased accountability, modernized bail statutes, expanded data collection,
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When an advocacy network calls oversight “persecution,” look at what it is protecting. Vera.org is sounding the alarm again. This time the complaint is that a proposed federal grantmaking rule would require discretionary grants to demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities and would give federal agencies greater authority
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The information in this discussion applies specifically to bail bonds written in the State of Mississippi. Bail laws, premiums, and court procedures vary from state to state. When a family calls a bail agent, one of the first questions is usually the most practical one: How much will the bail
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There are books we read simply to learn what happened in the past, and then there are books that force us to think about what is happening around us right now. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense belongs in the second category. Published in January 1776, it was not written as
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The First Telephone Call After a Missed Appearance Matters More Than Any Excuse That Follows The information in this discussion applies specifically to bail bonds written in the State of Mississippi. Bail laws and court procedures vary from state to state. A bail bond is a financial guarantee that the
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Most people never think about bail until someone they know is arrested. When that happens, the family is suddenly expected to understand a system they may have never encountered before. They need to know what bail is, how a bail bond is posted, what information must be provided, who is
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The information in this discussion applies specifically to bail bonds written in the State of Mississippi. Bail laws and procedures vary from state to state, and defendants should not rely on information from another jurisdiction when trying to understand a Mississippi bail bond. One of the most common misunderstandings about
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When a family member or friend is arrested, the first call to a bail agent often comes during a stressful and confusing moment. The caller may know very little about the arrest, the charges, the amount of bail, or the options available for securing the defendant’s release. The bail