Poor people can’t catch a break in America – in many ways. One of the changes meant to level the playing field are the laws surrounding bail. Too often an indigent person finds they have to set behind bars – without trial, without a conviction – for simply not having enough money to cover bail. In extreme cases, the innocent are locked up for months and years. Progressive minded state legislators are taking steps to begin to change the way poor people are punished for being poor.
Harsh discussions take place whether to leave bail bonds system as is or to eliminate it completely. Several states have launched investigation into the issue. Let’s see what Nevada has to offer.
Las Vegas law enforcement does not maintain separate records for police shootings and bond agent woundings. Since 1973 when the Clark County Sheriff’s Department merged with the Las Vegas Metro PD,
The caprices of bail in Las Vegas are many and can’t be defined easily. A 50-something-year-old man who is declared innocent after spending twenty years in prison can’t get bond while the ruling wanders its way through justice, but a twenty-something attorney walks free,
For a trio linked to an actor’s death in Las Vegas, they had some strange requests. Killeen Cota, Janette Martinez, and James Martinez-Amador appeared for their bail hearing on Monday. The trio, accused of swindling almost $1 million from Charles Thomas Deishley,
What Are Some of the Highest Bail Bonds Ever Posted Nicolai Mork is on the A-list of Las Vegas bail bonds. Mork, 40, had to post bail of a cool $8 million recently when he faced charges in ‘Sin City.’ Law enforcement said they found enough explosives in his house to blow up a tank….
Significant changes within Nevada’s bonding system could be in effect statewide soon. Once that occurs, Nevada shall be discriminating. That’s not a evil thing. The pretrial liberation program, being examined in several Nevada counties, is radically different. The courts have ordered an attempt be made to lesson bail inequities. Nevada has entered the movement by…
Gov. Jerry Brown has begun circulating draft legislation to meet a federal court order to reduce prison crowding, prompting legislative leaders, as promised, to urge the governor instead to fight the court order. “Given what we have accomplished … there is only one constructive solution to prison overcrowding: keep people from coming back to prison…
Las Vegas, through its Community Impact Court, is implementing an initiative meant to keep homeless persons from spending long periods in jail. The program, Restorative Justice is intended, and built, to reduce recidivism among nonviolent offenders. The goal is to help them get off the street. Permanently. Much of the initiative is aimed at homelessness…
The arrest of alleged fraudster and Chomedey resident Iqbal Javaid concluded a major fraud investigation by Laval Police last weekend. Operation Game Over project started with information supplied by the public to Info-Crime which indicated that two individuals each controlled a laboratory of false identity documents and created several non-existent identities (synthetic identities) to obtain…