Lower Bail for Nonviolent Suspects Helps County, Hurts Businesses

Getting out of jail in Spokane County is getting cheaper. After years of inmate overcrowding and a push by the county to streamline the judi...

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Thomas Porteous' Defense Says Four Judges Took Money From Corrupt Bond Agents

As Thomas Porteous, the impeached federal judge from Metairie, prepares his defense before the U.S. Senate, he is alleging that 10 other jud...

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Bail Bondsman Arrested For Forced Labor, Blackmail

LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. - Lexington County Sheriff�s detectives arrested a bondsman on charges that he forced a woman to perform manual labor...

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Bondsman Jailed After Targeting Wrong Home

A pair of Florida bail bondsmen found themselves in custody after entering the wrong house, according to Laurinburg police. Ellis Fernandez ...

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Final Charge Against Naples Bail Bondsman Dismissed

NAPLES � Living up to his nickname, Teflon Joe, Naples bail bondsman Joe Houston walked out of the Collier County Courthouse a free man on M...

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Bail Bondsmen Face Tough Times

Although many people assume that the bail bonds industry would shine during difficult economic times, it now faces multiple challenges that ...

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Bail Bonds Now Available by Phone and Online From Almost Anywhere in the Country

Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) August 14, 2010 While not at all like a get-out-of-jail-free card, BailZoom.com does provide a potentially valuable...

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Panel Eyes Ways to Collect Bail Bucks in Philadelphia

Members of a state Senate panel yesterday heard a host of ideas to improve the city's bail-collection system - including using private b...

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Judge Recuses Himself From Bail Bondsman�s Hearing

A court hearing in a case against a local bail bondsman was postponed Monday when a judge recused himself due to a conflict of inte...

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Three Arrested in Santa Clarita Brush Fire

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arrested three people Sunday in connection with a brush fire in the Santa Clarita Valley tha...

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After 18 Months, Serious Charges Against Bail Bondsman Remain Largely Unexamined

A year and a half after Bexar County's leading bail bondsman starred in an Express-News report on whether he offered illicit favors to a...

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New Jersey Tightens Reins on Bounty Hunters

Bounty hunters in New Jersey can now call themselves licensed professionals as the state begins to corral an industry that is better known f...

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Snooki Arrested, Released for Disorderly Conduct

Jersey Shore" star Snooki was released from jail Friday after being arrested earlier in the day in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, for dis...

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