by John Floyd | Oct 25, 2025 | Bail Laws, Bail Reform
In 2025, Texas lawmakers once again turned their attention to “bail reform.” Governor Greg Abbott and his allies in the Legislature pushed through several measures — packaged as public-safety initiatives — that dramatically reshape how bail works across the state....
by John Floyd | May 18, 2025 | Bail Reform, Criminal Justice Reform
We recently posted a piece about how local Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston) has once again lobbied the Texas Legislature during its 2025 session to gut the Michael Morton Act—a 2013 act designed to prevent wrongful convictions—in a manner that would resurrect the kind of...
by John Floyd | May 16, 2025 | Bail Reform, Criminal Justice Reform
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed strict bail policies and legislation in recent years under the disingenuous title of “bail reform.” The governor has even called for a constitutional amendment that would prevent judges from setting any bail for certain...
by John Floyd | Feb 9, 2025 | Bail Reform, Criminal Justice Reform, Criminal Law
Various media reports show that gun homicides, mass shootings, and gun violence all decreased in 2024 as compared to 2023. In fact, gun violence decreased in most of the nation’s largest cities. But in campaign debates and political ads in virtually every state and...
by John Floyd | Sep 2, 2023 | Bail Reform, Criminal Justice Reform
There are more than 3,000 county jails in the United States. They house more than 650,000 inmates on any given day. Roughly 70 percent of these inmates are pretrial detainees in jail pending trial because they do not have the financial resources to post cash bail....
by John Floyd | Jul 4, 2023 | Bail Reform, Criminal Justice Reform
In the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, federal courts across the country suddenly faced an increasing number of lawsuits from state prisoners seeking application and/or adjudication of a wide range of new constitutional rights extended in a number of federal...
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