Stories of real people, real lives, and the real consequences of an unforgiving and unjust cash bail system.
Hannah WebsterAugust 23, 2023
Bail bond agents will tell you that most people flee before returning to court, but our clients prove otherwise.
Jeremy ChersonJuly 24, 2023
Follow the life of a cash bail amount from initial hearing to the end of a trial.
Hannah WebsterJuly 20, 2023
The anti-bail reform headlines and reports pushed out by “big media” are numerous.
Jeremy ChersonApril 19, 2023
Jaylen’s mental health crisis led to his arrest. Cash bail made his situation worse. Fortunately, his grandmother intervened.
Melissa EtehadOctober 3, 2022
Throughout Kentucky we spoke to people on the street to hear what they think about the cash bail system. Kentucky spends $140 million per year incarcerating people pretrial.
Shannon SoperSeptember 22, 2022
Like cash bail, pretrial electronic monitoring is a flawed policy that does not enhance public safety or improve the likelihood that a person returns to court. Instead, it punishes people…
Jeremy ChersonAugust 29, 2022
Together, with data scientists and legal scholars, we argue that pretrial algorithms, also known as risk assessment tools, disproportionately harm people of color, oversimplify complex individual and case outcomes, undermine…
Jeremy ChersonJuly 15, 2022
The Bail Project offers the following framework as a starting point for grounding bail and pretrial reform in a broader vision of democracy, progress, and collective wellbeing.
The Bail ProjectJanuary 14, 2020
"Nearly half a million people who are presumed innocent are sitting in jail cells across America," Glover said. "Most of them are there for one reason only: they cannot afford…
Shannon SoperOctober 14, 2019
