When Susan Wrigley was arrested in November, she became one of the first persons to experience a pilot program in Nevada. Some Nevada counties are modifying the way they are releasing inmates and moving them back into the community. Despite being 7-hours away from Las Vegas, Clark County bail, bond agencies are keeping a close…
Money!! Steal a million here or there and come to America. That seems to be the latest twist in immigrant problems that American authorities are trying to unwind. Affluent politicians and businessmen believed to be engaged in corruption back home are running to a haven where their wealth and influence often keeps them from being…
Fifteen people have been arrested after campaigners against airport expansion staged a protest near Heathrow Airport. A small group of people ran on to the M4 spur road and lay down in front of oncoming traffic, causing temporary disruption. Other were arrested on suspicion of public order offences. This expansion is being driven by the very…
Tom Chudz had been enjoying his retirement as he drove his Airstream 190 around America. One night in New Mexico, while Tom slept, the local sheriff and his deputies came knocking Sniffing booze on Tom’s breath, the deputies arrested him believing he had been driving and drinking. Someone had plowed into a Toyota just down…
On Monday, actress Shailene Woodley was arrested in Sioux County, North Dakota, following a peaceful protest of the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. She was released from Morton County Jail hours after she was taken into custody, E! News reports. The Dakota Access Pipeline is a $3.7 billion project aimed at creating a 1,172-mile…
A local woman is suing the Orange County bail bondsman accused of sexually assaulting her. The victim says bondsman Robert Burns threatened to revoke her bond, arrest her and take her to jail unless she had sex with him. The alleged victim announced the lawsuit late Monday morning. The suit, filed in Orange County, is…
“Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.” — Bryan Stevenson Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, eloquently points out the cost of America’s “prison industrial complex.” It’s a fact that America…
Thousands of New Yorkers accused of low-level or non-violent crimes won’t face the prospect of raising cash for bail under a plan that seeks to keep such suspects out of the troubled Rikers Island jail complex. The $18 million city plan, detailed to The Associated Press ahead of the announcement on Wednesday, allows judges beginning…
Washington State Man Held on $1 Million Bail A Connell, Washington man was arrested for killing his girlfriend and son and was held on $1 million bail (records from provider of bail bonds in Las Vegas). Prudencio Juan Fragos-Ramirez was scheduled to return to court on July 14 faced two counts of first-degree murder. The…
Roof’s Death Sentence Bucks Trend in America Dylan Roof’s death sentence for the South Carolina shooting which left nine people dead, departs from the national downward trending of death penalty cases. Before the June 17, 2015 mass shooting, Roof’s only contact with police had been two arrests each occurring in the months immediately before the…