The Bail Project

The Tap In Center has helped close to 800 people with legal issues since it was launched in 2020.

St. Louis attorneys and activists say judges are often denying defendants bond entirely after the Missouri Supreme Court in 2019 made it harder for courts to detain people on cash bail pretrial. “It’s a classic case of the system recalibrating and in some ways achieving many of the same results,” said Blake Strode, executive director of civil rights law firm ArchCity Defenders.

Robin Steinberg, CEO of the Bail Project, and Mike Milton, founder and CEO of the Freedom Community Center, discuss the work done by the Bail Project in its three years here — and explain why its St. Louis office is closing.

The Bail Project's Mike Milton is starting a new diversion program that will work with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office: The Freedom Community Center. He discussed it with John Nanney of UMSL on St. Louis on the Air.

In 2000, the circuit court in St. Louis entered a contract with Eastern Missouri Alternative Sentencing Services, a private company based in St. Charles…

Four activist groups say they have found a way to close the St. Louis jail known as the Workhouse by the end of this year.The Close the Workhouse campaign…

St. Louis County plans to launch a six-month pilot program in January that tracks people accused of crimes by using a smartphone app. County Executive Sam…

Criminal-justice reform advocates and public defenders are calling on the St. Louis circuit court to reduce its use of monitoring systems that require…

The first time Michael Milton helped buy somebody’s freedom, he didn’t expect it would be so simple.He filed some paperwork, handed over cash and waited.…