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.
Mike Morrison Bail Bonding
While traveling across Mississippi and meeting with bail agents, we continue to ask: How can the MBAA be more helpful to you? Quality bail agent education is one of the answers we hear most often. The response to our new education program has been tremendous, and bail agents appreciate not
A Harvard randomized trial found that Arnold Ventures’ Public Safety Assessment failed to produce meaningful improvements in court appearance, new criminal activity, violent crime, pretrial detention, or racial fairness—raising serious questions about replacing professional surety bail with taxpayer-funded prediction systems. This should be a wake-up call for
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How courts are punishing defendants before their court date is even set. In Mississippi, punishment is supposed to come after guilt. A person is arrested, charged with an offense, given an opportunity to obtain pretrial release, and eventually appears in court where the State must prove its case. Only after
Mike Morrison Bail Bonding
Bail bonds protect the presumption of innocence and allow defendants to continue working, supporting their families, and preparing their defense while their case is pending. Without this system, defendants who have not been convicted of anything could remain in jail simply because they cannot afford to pay the full amount
Mike Morrison Bail Bonding
From Industry Communication to National Influence: How PBUS Is Reaching an Audience Far Beyond the Bail Profession Mike Morrison is leading a social media strategy designed to take the PBUS message beyond the bail profession and directly to the American public. A recent PBUS post generated 180,347 views, reached
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Why replacing conditional release with expanded government incarceration threatens due process, public budgets, and the presumption of innocence. In the evolving debate over American criminal justice reform, few legal mechanisms are as fundamentally misunderstood as preventive detention. The term sounds technical. The consequence is not. Preventive detention gives government the
Mike Morrison Bail Bonding
The Difference Between Taxpayer-Funded Release and the Bail Profession There is a part of the bail debate that rarely receives the attention it deserves: who pays for the system? When government creates a taxpayer-funded pretrial release program, somebody has to pay for the building, office space, utilities, computers,
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35 Years, Nearly 30,000 Clients: What Mike Morrison Bail Bonding Actually Stands For A look at how one Hattiesburg bail agent built a career on legal knowledge, discretion, and staying current as the courts around him changed. Mike Morrison Bail Bonding has operated in Hattiesburg since 1991. In that
California Bail Agents Just Beat Back Another Bad Bill SB 562 asked bail agents to carry all the risk and none of the certainty. The industry fought it for eighteen months, and on August 13, it lost. California Senate Bill 562 is dead for this legislative session, and the bail
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Circuit courts handle some of the government’s most consequential daily work. People are jailed or released on bond. Cases are dismissed, continued, negotiated, tried, or resolved. Sentences are imposed. Victims, defendants, witnesses, families, prosecutors, defense lawyers, judges, clerks, and law enforcement all pass through those rooms. Much of this
Mike Morrison Bail Bonding
The Beef Paradox Americans are eating less beef and paying more for it — so why does every menu still look the same? Fewer Americans are choosing beef than a generation ago, yet much of the restaurant industry still builds its menu as though nothing has changed. Walk into most restaurants
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A federal judge just ruled the government cannot vacuum up everyone's phone data to find one suspect. It is not an isolated ruling. It is the same pattern I wrote about earlier this week when traffic cameras sold as convenience quietly became warrant-free bulk surveillance networks. Once