Months after the city promised it would be operational, New Yorkers still don’t have a way to pay bail online, an oversight that advocates contend results in unnecessary jail time for defendants. Last November, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would be creating an online bail-payment system that would be operating by the spring. The new system would mean arrestees wouldn’t have to wait in jail as people trying to bail them out took time off work, traveled to payment locations and often waited in long lines to post...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 29, 2017 18:00 UTC