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
Bail
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,
Bail
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
constitutional bail rights
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
abuse
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
Arrest
Traffic cameras were sold as convenience. What they've become is a warrant-free surveillance network — and the Fourth Amendment doesn't have an exception for technology. Traffic cameras were sold as convenience. What they've become is a warrant-free surveillance network — and the Fourth Amendment
Bail
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
Arrest
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
Prevention matters, but prevention without accountability will not protect victims or make communities safer. In a recent video posted on Instagram, the Vera Institute of Justice claims that voters understand that “more incarceration and more policing don’t make us safer.” Vera argues that public safety comes instead from investments