Bail bond businesses Williamson County

Bulldog Investigations bond runners America Villarreal, Mariyah Sosa and Marcus Honstein, along with office manager Ursula Morales, work with Jessica Zak, owner of Bulldog Bail Bonds. Photo by Abbey Archer

Bulldog Investigations bond runners America Villarreal, Mariyah Sosa and Marcus Honstein, along with office manager Ursula Morales, work with Jessica Zak, owner of Bulldog Bail Bonds. Photo by Abbey Archer

Freedom for a price: the bail bond industry is a quiet but thriving part of downtown Georgetown

Within a mile of the Square, there are eight bail bond businesses — some in small houses with neon signs, others in unassuming office buildings — working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to get people who are innocent until proven guilty, out of jail.