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The irony of the bail industry trying to regulate charitable bail
March 8, 2021
The Bail Project’s national director of operations David Gaspar wrote an op–ed for the Indianapolis Business Journal about efforts from the bail industry to limit the ability of charitable bail organizations, like The Bail Project, to secure freedom for indigent people.
Closure is in sight for the workhouse. Now the real work begins.
July 20, 2020
St. Louis bail disruptor Tracy Stanton penned a powerful op–ed for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sharing her personal experience at the inhumane Workhouse jail.
Closing The Workhouse Is Only The Beginning
July 17, 2020
The Bail Project’s statewide advocacy and policy manager Mike Milton wrote an op–ed for the St. Louis American on the critical need to address the systemic issues of poverty, institutional racism and public health inequities which drive so many into the criminal legal system.
A Bail Reform Tool Intended to Curb Mass Incarceration Has Only Replicated Biases In The Criminal Justice System
July 12, 2020
Kentucky was an early adopter of risk assessments in an effort to release more people without bail. But the algorithms are reproducing systemic inequities.
He worked hard to find a job after a nonprofit paid his bail. Then the coronavirus hit
July 1, 2020
In the weeks since George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, a broader swatch of Americans, including many white Americans, have begun to engage in conversations about how systemic racism shapes the criminal justice system in the U.S. The dialogue has often focused on shifting money away from law enforcement and into social services, housing initiatives and jobs programs.
But another key part of dismantling a system that disproportionately incarcerates Black and Latino men, activists say, rests in abolishing a cash-bail framework that can lock people into cycles of poverty and legal discrimination.