What’s New
ICE cranks up use of electronic monitoring in immigrant raids
August 21, 2019
“In the early August raids on seven workplaces in Mississippi, authorities apparently used GPS location tracking information to verify that people who working in certain places did not have valid permits.”
L.A. County cancels mental health jail project in favor of “care first” approach
August 14, 2019
“The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to cancel a nearly $2 billion contract to build a mental health-focused jail and will instead explore funding community-based mental health and substance abuse care for residents.”
How cash bail hurts poor women—and what we can do about it
August 13, 2019
A transcript of a talk given by our CEO, Robin Steinberg, on the origins of The Bail Project and Still She Rises. “When it comes to girls and women, it could not be more clear to me that they, as a group, have no place in our current criminal legal system that was designed by and for men,” Steinberg says
A conversation between The Bail Project’s Robin Steinberg on the Future Hindsight podcast
August 12, 2019
The Bail Project’s CEO Robin Steinberg sits for a chat with Mila Atmos of Future Hindsight to discuss our origins as a revolving bail fund in the Bronx and how we’re taking our model national.