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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Behind the slogan of “profit over people” is a regulated profession, a private financial stake, and a record the reform movement would rather not revisit. The anti-surety movement has built its public case on a single substitution: take the mechanical reality of a cash bail number, bolt on a
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Behind the slogan is a profession built on accountability, guidance, and service to families in crisis. “Profit over people” has become one of the anti-surety movement’s favorite accusations against professional bail agents. It is a convenient slogan, but it is built on a false description of who we
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In 2018, Mississippi's bail reform critics were dismissed as fearmongers. In 2026, the numbers say they were right. State leaders rarely go back and check their own work. Once a policy is passed, the people who championed it move on to the next cause, and the communities left
Bail Enforcement
A Ride Along in the World of Bail Enforcement Agents Most people will never truly understand the world of a professional bail enforcement agent because most of that world exists while the rest of society is asleep. The public sees fragments of it through social media clips, television shows, arrest
Public Safety
Two pieces published eleven days apart both name cash bail as the villain — even when their own facts point somewhere else entirely. Two Bail Project pieces landed within two weeks of each other this summer: a June 26 USA Today op-ed by National Director of Policy Erin George opposing