The Texas House tentatively approved a slate of proposals Monday that would make it harder for undocumented immigrants and people accused of violent crimes to bail out of county jails.

U.S. District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal is giving Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton the opportunity to argue that new state laws could invalidate a first-of-its-kind bail reform in Harris County. In a ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a federal court to vacate the ODonnell Consent Decree, a first-of-its-kind bail reform practice in Harris County that allows most misdemeanor ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House advanced legislation on Monday that would make it easier to keep people charged with violent crimes in jail while they await trial and give judges more tools to deny ...

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Monday is a pivotal day at the Texas Capitol as lawmakers take up a controversial bail reform measure that's been years in the making. The Texas House of Representatives is expected to debate and vote ...

When Texans head to the polls this year, they'll be faced with a criminal justice question: Should judges have more power to deny bail for people who have been arrested? The way pretrial release is ...

This constitutional amendment would require judges to deny bail to defendants accused of certain violent crimes. For bail to be denied, prosecutors would have to show that bail is inadequate to ...