{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-introduces-legislation-to-end-bail-for-repeat-violent-criminals", "Cotton Introduces Legislation to End Bail for Repeat Violent Criminals", "2025-09-11", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: Caroline Tabler orPatrick McCann (202) 224-2353\n\nSeptember 11, 2025\n\nCotton Introduces Legislation to End Bail for Repeat Violent Criminals\n\nWashington, DC \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the No Bail Post-Jail Act. This legislation denies bail for previously convicted violent felons upon arrest for a new felony offense.\n\n\u201cYears of soft on crime policies have allowed violent repeat criminals back on our streets endangering law abiding Arkansans. My bill ensures that violent repeat offenders won\u2019t be released on bail, keeping our communities safer,\u201d said Senator Cotton.\n\nText of the bill can be found here.\n\nThe No Bail Post-Jail Act would:\n\nDeny bail for any individual previously incarcerated for a violent felony upon arrest for a new felony offense.\n\nA violent felony includes murder, aggravated assault, robbery, and sexual assault.\n\n\"Prior incarceration\" is defined as serving any time in a state or federal correctional facility, including sentences as short as 30 days, but excludes pretrial detention without conviction.\n\nApplies to adults and juveniles tried as adults for the new offense.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-introduces-legislation-to-end-bail-for-repeat-violent-criminals"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7281599100679159, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}