Bail bondsmen concerned about potential reforms

The Supreme Court’s second hearing to study major changes in how defendants are released from jail before trial drew a crowd on Thursday, many of them bail bondsmen concerned what could happen to their business.Chief Justice Jim Hardesty convened the study saying there’s growing recognition the system based almost entirely on a defendant’s ability to post bail is unfair and potentially unconstitutional.“What many states have found is they can release a number of individu