2026 PBUS National Bail Agent of the Year. President, Mississippi Bail Agents Association. National bail educator, speaker, and 35-year Professional Bail Agent focused on public safety, court integrity, and criminal justice accountability.
It has been a while since I have written a book review, but Robert M. Drake’s Detoxify caught my attention with a passage that packs a great deal of truth into a few sentences: “You cannot love somebody into developing a conscience. You cannot be loyal enough to cure
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As a Master Class graduate, a professional Bail Agent should have a strong working understanding of the expungement process in Mississippi. Not because we are attorneys or because we should attempt to practice law, but because the question will eventually come from someone we once helped: “Can I get this
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If We Want Respect, Visibility and Public Trust, We Have to Earn It Across the United States, I spend a great deal of time looking at social media pages belonging to bail agents, bail bond companies and organizations within our profession, and far too often I come away asking the
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Supercharging a Crime That Has Targeted American Families for Nearly Two Decades The sudden attention being given to bail scams can leave the impression that this is a new crime. It is not. The FBI was warning the public about the “grandparent scam” in 2012 and
This case hits far too close to home for bail agents across the United States who have followed the death of Lauren Johansen and the questions surrounding what happened before it. Today, Bricen Rivers pleaded guilty to killing Lauren and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of
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"Follow the Money, the Authority, and the Accountability — and See Which System Actually Works" The difference between government pretrial services and professional surety bail becomes much easier to understand when we stop arguing slogans and start looking at how the two systems actually operate. Both are supposed to
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America cannot fix its criminal justice system by defending failed policies, tolerating ineffective leadership, or ignoring constitutional rights. For more than a decade, criminal justice reform has been sold as a way to make the system fairer, more efficient, and safer. Bail reform, diversion programs, alternatives to incarceration, reduced enforcement,
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When Bail Reform Ignores Criminal History, Victims, Court Appearance and the Real Cost of Replacing Accountability With Government Supervision The Vera Institute of Justice is once again promoting the idea that California’s courts have not gone far enough in reducing bail and pretrial detention. Vera senior researcher Madeline Bailey
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History has already tested what happens when government takes control of resources and production. The results are on the record. Turn on the television, scroll through social media, or listen to candidates running for office today and you will hear the same promises repeated over and over again: free healthcare,
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Who They Are, Who Funds Them, and What Happens When Their Promises Meet the Results Introduction The "Anti-Surety Movement" is a national network of advocacy organizations, litigation groups, private foundations, government agencies, and nonprofit bail funds that has spent decades, and an enormous amount of money, building
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Unity, legislative muscle, and judicial insight define North Carolina's premier bail event The North Carolina Bail Agents Association (NCBAA) just wrapped up a highly successful 2026 Annual Conference at the Courtyard by Marriott Carolina Beach Oceanfront. This year's event was a masterclass in industry unity, active
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A decade after Jackson eliminated secured surety bail for municipal misdemeanors, the question is no longer what reformers expected to happen. It is what the evidence shows actually happened. In 2016, the City of Jackson settled Bell v. City of Jackson, a federal lawsuit brought by the MacArthur Justice Center