Your Fast Bail Bond News

There’s a lot happening in the news this week:

Illegal Immigration is a hot topic, and Sherriff Joe Arpaio conducted a two-day sweep for illegal immigrants through a Hispanic neighbourhood of Phoenix, despite a federal court ruling days earlier that stripped the state’s controversial new immigration law of its key sections.

The blitz had barely finished when word got out he was the target of a US$1-million bounty issued by a Mexican drug cartel, via cellphone text message.

Deputy Peter Paul Felix gets four years for trying to smuggle drugs into jail

Peter Paul Felix was found trying to bring heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into L.A. County’s Castaic jail facility in October 2008.

Lindsay Lohan is now free from jail, and goes to rehab… lets hope she doesn’t need another bail bond soon. (if she does, Fast Out Bail Bonds is standing by )

DMX is headed back to jail, for the thrird time. DMX violated his probation on and and will turn himself into authorities in a Los Angeles courtroom shortly.

An officer of the Long Beach Police Department has been arrested for stealing firearms that had been turned over for evidence. He has been booked at the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail and is being held on $1,000,000 bail.

You’ve Been Arrested – Here’s How To Make Bail

The first thing that goes through your mind if you land in jail is how to get out… and fast.

Getting out of jail fast in Los Angeles means you post a bail bond.

Bail is set by the court to guarantee you’ll in court on the date when ordered to do so. When you appear in court, the court then refunds the bail. But if you don’t appear, the court will keep the bail… and a warrant for the defendant’s arrest is issued. It is really that simple.

How a Bail Amount Is Set

Judges usually set the bail. But, many people want to get out of jail immediately (instead of waiting for a judge). California jails have standard bail schedules that set the bail amounts for common crimes. An arrested person can get out of jail quickly by paying the amount set out in the bail schedule.

What to Do If Your Son or Daughter Needs Bail.

For most people, having to hire a bail bond company may not be something they’ve ever considered. And when you have to post bond for your young adult, it may even seem overwhelming.

We understand that having your child arrested is stressful enough without having to navigate a bail bond system.

Step one is finding a reputable bail bond company.  As a parent, you want to make the right decision for your child and for the situation they are in. If you are anywhere in the Los Angeles area, we’ll be able to provide the answers you need to help them fast.

So, what do you do when your child calls you and needs you to get them out of a Los Angeles jail?

Call Fast Out Bail – the premier experienced, professional, and licensed bail bond agents of Southern California.

Your Miranda Rights – What You Need To Know.

Today the Supreme Court made a ruling which impacts everyone that is given miranda rights…

Today, the Supreme Court ruled: “A suspect who has received and understood the Miranda warnings – and has not invoked his Miranda rights – waives the right to remain silent by making an uncoerced statement to the police,” Justice Kennedy said. He was joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen G. Breyer dissented.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the ruling “marks a substantial retreat from the protections against compelled self-incrimination that Miranda v. Arizona has long provided.” She said the conviction should be overturned because the prosecution had not “carried its burden to show that he waived his right to remain silent.”

The majority ruling is in line with the position taken by the Obama administration and Supreme Court nominee U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan. In December, she filed a brief on the side of Michigan prosecutors and argued that “the government need not prove that a suspect expressly waived his rights.”

She said that “if a suspect knows and understands his Miranda rights,” anything he says can be used against him in court.

What this means is that if you are arrested, you must invoke your rights immediately and ask to see a lawyer.

Failing to do so can result in evidence being used against you, even if it’s only one word, as in this case…

California State Passing Law to Turn Truancy Into A Misdemeanor.

It’s now a misdemeanor to allow your kids to skip school…

The California Senate passed a bill that holds parents responsible if their children regularly skipped school.

The measure would let prosecutors charge parents with misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine if their children were chronically truant. The measure passed the Senate on a 21-to-9 vote and now goes to the Assembly.

The state of California would hold parents responsible if their children are chronically truant under a bill the state Senate approved Thursday.

American Civil Liberties Union – Report On Los Angeles County Jails

The ACLU published the following report today, showing why choosing the right bail bond company is so important.

When someone needs to be bailed out with a bail bond, time is of the essence. Fast Out Bail Bonds is here to help you navigate the bail system in the Los Angels area.

A report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union shows that overcrowding and unsanitary conditions that have plagued Los Angeles County’s Men’s Central Jail for more than 30 years still persist, along with an apparent culture of violence and fear, including prisoner-on-prisoner assaults and the use of excessive force by deputies.

The picture of the jail that emerges in stark and disturbing detail in the report suggests that prisoners with mental illnesses suffer some of the worst treatment, and that retaliation by deputies against prisoners who complain about conditions as well as a lack of transparency in conducting investigations into prisoner complaints make it difficult to assess the full extent of violence that occurs there.

“Men’s Central Jail is a modern-day medieval dungeon, a dank, windowless place where prisoners live in fear of retaliation, and abuse apparently goes unchecked,” said Peter Eliasberg, managing attorney at the ACLU of Southern California. “The jail is not an appropriate facility for housing prisoners with mental illness, many of whom do not receive proper treatment. At the root of the many problems plaguing this toxic facility is overcrowding, and the only solutions are to either reduce its population dramatically or close it.”

With approximately 20,000 detainees, the Los Angeles County jail system is the largest and most expensive in the nation, costing nearly $1 billion a year to operate. Men’s Central Jail is nearly 50 years old and currently houses an average of 5,000 detainees daily. More than half are simply awaiting trial – in other words, they are presumed innocent and have yet to get their day in court.

As a result of decades-long litigation in which the ACLU charges the conditions in the jail violate the constitutional rights of detainees, the ACLU of Southern California and the ACLU National Prison Project are the court-appointed monitors of conditions within the jail.