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Bail Bondsmen: Working the Numbers
A year-long investigation into the bail bond industry by the Dallas Morning News focused on the relationship between bail bondsmen, the judicial system, and the county government. The investigation uncovered corrupt practices, sweetheart deals, and dysfunctional oversight that cost taxpayers many millions of dollars.
Tags: Bail Bondsmen; County Government; Judicial System; Sweetheart Deals
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Bail Bond Investigation
The investigation uncovered major loopholes in a bail bond system which allowed countless defendants to get out of jail by posting bogus bonds.
Tags: bail bonds; corruption; loophole; bondsmen; jail
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The Strong Arm of the Law: They call themselves 'bail enforcement agents,' but most know them as bounty hunters, people paid to collar recalcitrant, usually petty, criminals. But sometimes they miss.
Story explains how bounty hunters can sometimes use extreme measures to arrest a person who owes bail money. Article also talks about Rep. Asa Hutchinson's (an Arkansas Republican) calls for a "Citizen Protection Act" or "Bounty Hunter Responsibility Act" because sometimes bounty hunters make mistakes, or act inappropriately.
Tags: law; bounty hunters; bail; bail bondsmen; bond; bail bond; law enforcement; criminals; jail; Asa Hutchinson; Citizen Protection Act; Bounty Hunter Responsibility Act; fugitive
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No title (id: 13132)
Since 1992 in Kanawha Circuit Court, 247 people have violated bail requirements, but the county prosecutor rarely collects money on forfeited bail. The Gazette examines how this situation creates a low-risk to no-risk business for the county's four professional bail bondsmen. (Sept. 12, 1996)
Tags: Messina Jumping bail: few pay for violating the law Criminal Defendants 7 pgs.
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No title (id: 5858)
Miami News reveals most judges and some clerks in the felony division of Dade Circuit Court have failed to enforce the state bail bond law, allowing bondsmen to evade payments totalling over $3 million in 67 cases and permitting accused felons to escape prosecution, June - November 1988.
Tags: McVicar Dewar FL
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No title (id: 2018)
Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune publishes reprint on abuses by bail bondsmen in Oklahoma, December 1982.
Tags: OK