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Bills banning gender-affirming care for minors and criminalizing bystanders around police head to the governor. And a constitutional amendment expanding bail denial advances.

A House committee narrowly cleared a change Wednesday to the Indiana Constitution to dramatically expand who can be held in jail without bail before trial.

Republicans push a constitutional amendment to keep more people in jail without bail. Lawmakers debate a step towards a universal school voucher program. And the state Supreme Court weighs the future of abortion rights.

Some Indiana Republicans want to change the state constitution to allow judges to withhold bail entirely for a lot more people.

A federal judge denied a motion to stop a new Indiana law from going into effect Friday that blocks charitable organizations from paying a person's bail to get them out of jail.

The bills aim to address multiple areas of the criminal justice system including bail, electronic monitoring and violent crime reduction.

A package of bills introduced by Indiana Senate Republicans that aim to reduce violent crime passed a committee vote Tuesday.

A package of bills proposed by Republican senators in efforts to curb crime in Marion County were met with some opposition during a committee hearing.

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A judge has slashed bond to $100,000 for a man accused of assisting in a scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and commit…

A task force says Michigan should reclassify many traffic offenses as civil infractions, release more defendants before trial without requiring them to…