Nation’s Largest Bail Fund Plans To Stop Bailing People Out Of Jail - The Appeal

The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund said it doesn’t want to ‘prop up an unjust system.’

Courtesy of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Kira Lerner Sep 30, 2019 Share Copy Link Email Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp Reddit LinkedIn The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund announced Friday that it would stop providing bail payments to get people out of jail, explaining that revolving bail funds in New York have become “an escape hatch for a political system that lacked the courage to end money bail.” The group, the largest community bail fund in the country, has provided approximately $4.7 million to free roughly 4,700 people awaiting trial from New York jails since it launched in 2015. Usi

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