Proposed state constitutional amendment is misguided. Bipartisan bail reform bills offer a better alternative.
Lawndale Christian Legal Center and the Bail Project are helping people awaiting trial with addiction treatment, mental health help and workforce training. Now, they’re adding housing to the mix.
People who leave Cook County Jail on individual-recognizance bonds can be connected to affordable housing through a partnership announced today by the Chicago Low-Income Housing Trust Fund, The Bail Project and Lawndale Christian Legal Center.
Michigan’s largest district court and bail reform advocates have agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit over cash bail practices, which activists say routinely and unconstitutionally jail poor and working class defendants despite evidence of their inability to pay.
A Kentucky state representative discusses why The Bail Project’s work has been a force for good in Louisville, and how Kentucky HB 313 threatens it.
Illinois became the first state in the country to eliminate cash bail; this public radio broadcast, featuring TBP’s Project Director of the Community Release with Support Chicago Project, Matthew McFarland, investigates the significance of this decision and explores what comes after cash bail.
Thousands of single black mothers are unjustly held in jails across the country, simply because they cannot afford to pay bail. This article surveys various efforts to fight this unfair system including The Bail Project, and includes the voice of TBP’s National Director of Legal and Policy, Twyla Carter.
TBP’s Senior Policy Counsel Nicole Zayas-Fortier and past intern Gabriel Henriquez write about the desperate need for bipartisan efforts to aid ongoing crisis in Michigan’s jails. If the proposed legislature were successful, jails would become less crowded and marginalized populations would be better protected.