"She (had) kids crying in the car," a retired teacher said after giving the woman $300. Police say Joanna King raised more than $3,000 by faking a domestic violence story.

Prosecutors say the woman used money in an account holding bail money to make credit-card payments and to pay her landlord.

Investigators discovered “several withdrawals taken from her bail account which appeared to be for personal use,” prosecutors said.

Layleen Cubilette-Polanco was arrested in April and sent to New York's Rikers Island jail because she could not afford the $500 bail, her family said. Nearly two months later, the 27-year-old ...

*Texas officials have revealed the reason behind Sandra Bland’s alleged suicide. An appeal filed by the Waller County Sheriff’s Office says Bland killed herself because she was unable to make bail. In ...