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Big Hit: Reuniting with Hit-Boy & Surviving Brutality in L.A. County Jail

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Steven Donziger: "I was given the highest bail for a misdemeanor in U.S. history" | The Bail Project

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Dominic Fike at Collier County Jail: "There are real people in there." | The Bail Project

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Kentucky Bail Billboards

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A Message From Our New CEO

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Family Reunification in Louisville

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How One Woman's Video Led to $40K in Bailouts and Support

Melody’s story reminds us that there’s unique and creative ways of supporting a mission you care about. Her video submission prompted the Project For Awesome (@p4a) community to vote for The Bail Project to receive a $37K grant! Read about how supporters like Melody help to bring people home and join our #FreedomFunders community today!
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Big Hit: Reuniting with Hit-Boy & Surviving Brutality in L.A. County Jail

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Big Hit: Reuniting with Hit-Boy & Surviving Brutality in L.A. County Jail

Просмотров 20 тыс.3 месяца назад

You’ve probably heard of the music mastermind, Hit-Boy. The Grammy award-winning producer has worked with artists such as Beyonce, Jay-Z, and Nas, creating songs that have topped the charts. One of the greatest rappers he's teamed up with is his own father, Big Hit. If you are unfamiliar with his story, Big Hit was incarcerated for a large part of Hit-Boy’s life. To celebrate Father's Day and t...

Steven Donziger: "I was given the highest bail for a misdemeanor in U.S. history" | The Bail Project

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Steven Donziger: "I was given the highest bail for a misdemeanor in U.S. history" | The Bail Project

Просмотров 6853 месяца назад

Steven Donziger has seen his share of injustices during his career as a human and environmental justice lawyer, but nothing compares to the unprecedented human health problems and suffering he saw in Ecuador. LEARN more about why Steven supports The Bail Project and the link between environmental justice and pretrial justice: www.bailproject.org/stevendonziger DONATE to pay someone's bail: www....

Dominic Fike at Collier County Jail: "There are real people in there." | The Bail Project

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Dominic Fike at Collier County Jail: "There are real people in there." | The Bail Project

Просмотров 64 тыс.Год назад

Just before heading out on his world tour to promote the release of his second studio album 'Sunburn', multitalented musician and actor Dominic Fike teamed up with The Bail Project and traveled to his hometown of Naples, Florida to bail people out of the Collier County Jail - the jail he was once incarcerated in himself. In the pre-bailout interview, Dominic talks about his firsthand experience...

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Kentucky Bail Billboards

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You won’t see any billboards for bail bondsmen in Kentucky, but you will see ours! Kentucky was the first state to ban for-profit bail bonds companies, but Kentuckians are still held on unconstitutional, unaffordable cash bail. Taxpayers pay over $140 million a year to incarcerate people who are legally presumed innocent. In addition to paying bail for free and offering Community Release with S...

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A Message From Our New CEO

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A message from The Bail Project's new CEO, David Gaspar.

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Family Reunification in Louisville

Просмотров 670Год назад

Andrea shares her story of spending 12 days stuck in the Jefferson County Jail pretrial because of unaffordable cash bail and the effect it had on her 6 children. In over half of cases in Kentucky, people cannot afford to pay their bail. Black Kentuckians are jailed at a much higher rate than white Kentuckians. The number of children in Kentucky with a parent in jail is four times the national ...

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Cash Bail in Rural Kentucky

Просмотров 588Год назад

On the porch of his log cabin in Powderly, KY Mike shares his story about getting arrested and how he found free bail assistance through The Bail Project. Kentucky taxpayers spend over $140 million a year incarcerating people awaiting trial. Rural counties have the highest rates of incarceration and spend a greater share of their budgets on jail costs. In 1976 Kentucky was the first state to ba...

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Kentucky Street Interviews

Просмотров 5172 года назад

People all over the state of Kentucky want an alternative to cash bail. We know because we talked to them. When a judge sets unaffordable cash bail, taxpayers pay the price. Kentucky spends $140,000,000.00 a year incarcerating people awaiting trial. In over half of cases Kentuckians cannot afford to pay their bail. Real people want real solutions to the bail crisis. #EndCashBail

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Freeing Spokane: Byron LeBlanc

Просмотров 3032 года назад

Byron, a transgender veteran, shares his story and talks about the challenges of experiencing housing insecurity in Spokane, WA.

"I am donating my kidney to my wife. Cash bail is making it, it’s taking a lot longer."

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"I am donating my kidney to my wife. Cash bail is making it, it’s taking a lot longer."

Просмотров 3032 года назад

Sometimes cash bail puts multiple lives on the line. Louis was incarcerated in the Los Angeles County Jail while his wife Lupe was sick. Lupe lost her primary caretaker and was given the burden of trying to come up with $100k bail. The Bail Project was able to bail Louis out, but by that time he had contracted a staph infection in jail that has delayed the kidney transplant even further. The re...

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BAIL OUT the SOUTH: Baton Rouge

Просмотров 2,9 тыс.3 года назад

Letitia shares her experience being incarcerated pretrial and held on bail in Baton Rouge, LA. BAIL OUT the SOUTH, with a focus on the Deep South, will double The Bail Project’s reach in the southern United States. Pretrial detention stacks the odds against any person accused of a crime, but it especially hurts people of color. Since people of color are held on bail at higher rates, and those t...