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Why the Fight Over Professional Surety Bail Is Really a Fight Over Accountability During the Professional Bail Agents of the United States Winter Conference, I introduced a term for something bail professionals across America have been watching develop for years: the Anti-Surety Movement. The term does not describe one
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Updated and expanded — July 2026 A look at the compensation, funding, and organizational ties behind the movement to abolish professional bail — and what its own IRS filings, corporate marketing, and contract records show. A cottage industry has grown up around the idea that professional bail is cruel, unnecessary, and worth
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What happens after the arrest may matter more than the arrest itself. Over the past several days, Mississippi has once again found itself reading headline after headline about violent crime. A horrific triple homicide in Jackson claimed the lives of two young women and a two-year-old child. Along
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Bail Reform Was Never About Public Safety Bail reform was never about public safety. It was never about improving outcomes in real courtrooms, real communities, or for real victims. It was an ideological experiment cooked up in classrooms and think tanks, then rammed into law with zero regard for the
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Thomas Paine was an English-born political writer and revolutionary thinker who played a major role in inspiring American independence. His 1776 pamphlet Common Sense made a clear, persuasive case for breaking away from British rule and helped turn public opinion toward revolution. There is a mistake that shows up
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Bail Agents: You’ve Got Serious “Bail Agent Energy” in Common with John Adams If you want to understand the role of a bail agent in its proper historical context, you do not need to look at modern policy debates or media narratives. You can return to the very foundations
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This is the third installment in a series exploring American history through the lens of accountability — how the Founders constructed systems that balanced liberty with genuine responsibility, and why those hard-won lessons continue to shape the work of public safety in our own time. In the first piece, we
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James Madison, Auxiliary Precautions, and the Architecture of Enduring Accountability: How Institutional Design Still Protects Liberty and Public Safety Today This is the fourth installment in a series exploring American history through the lens of accountability — how the Founders constructed systems that balanced liberty with genuine responsibility, and why those
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George Washington, the Spirit of Party, and the Republic We Were Warned Not to Lose: How the Erosion of Accountability Now Threatens Public Safety and the Integrity of Our Justice System Picture this: It’s 1796. George Washington, the man who could have been king but chose to step down
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Alexander Hamilton, the Energy of Government, and the Architecture of Enforced Accountability: How Vigorous Administration Still Safeguards Liberty and Public Safety Today If Washington warned of the spirit of party, Madison designed auxiliary precautions against it, Franklin insisted on the civic virtue required to keep a republic, and Paine demanded
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Patrick Henry and the Vigilant Spirit of Liberty: Recurring to Fundamental Principles in the Administration of Justice On March 23, 1775, inside St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, Patrick Henry rose amid tense debate. Delegates weighed reconciliation with Britain against the need for resistance.With characteristic fire, Henry declared:
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The Missing Factor in Risk Assessment and Enforcement Decisions The bail profession has always been grounded in accountability, but anyone who has spent real time in this business understands that accountability is only part of the equation. What we deal with every day is human behavior — unpredictable, inconsistent, and often