As Director of Philanthropy, Kristina Justiniano will lead The Bail Project’s development vision, building an impactful strategy that will carry the organization through its next phase.
With this decision, Illinois becomes the first state in the nation to completely eliminate the devastating use of cash bail, upholding the presumption of innocence.
The announcement is coupled with the release of a new report that summarizes the organization’s local impact to-date and provides recommendations to improve the state and local pretrial systems.
In response to yesterday’s raid of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund offices and the subsequent arrest of three of its staff members, The Bail Project issued the following statement.
Bail schedules perpetuated a two-tiered system of justice: one where those with money would be released pretrial, and one where those who were too poor to pay bail would remain…
Clandestine changes to the state’s laws are not only unnecessary, they go against ample evidence proving that bail reform has not increased crime throughout the state.