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…
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…
Today, Governor Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 6 (SB 6), which expands the use of cash bail in Texas. In response, The Bail Project issued the following statement.
When Kamren, a Black man living in Austin, was held pretrial at the Travis County Jail, he worried about the financial and emotional toll his incarceration would take on his…
This video discusses how people today continue to experience the same hardships as Dr. King faced despite decades of efforts to reform the criminal justice system.
Those subjected to electronic monitoring often experience negative stigma when people are observed wearing it. It is also a significant factor in re-incarceration. One minor mistake, such as forgetting to…
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.
For as long as there have been jail cells and bondage in America, families and communities have pooled their resources together to try to purchase the freedom of their loved…