It’s no secret that the consequences of cash bail have fallen mostly on people of color. Cash bail has disproportionately kept our folks behind bars, it’s time for Philly to end this systemic racism. #EndPhillyBail

🚨 A YOUTH & ELDER DIED IN PHILLY'S JAILS IN THE LAST TWO DAYS. 🚨 A 63 yr old from health complications. A 26 yr old who committed suicide, found with bedding around his neck this morning. This makes 46 deaths since 2020. The state violence & torture must end now.

Glad to hear Krasner call for ending cash bail but, as @phillybailfund has pointed out many times, his office continues to demand bail for thousands of presumed innocent people every year. This includes ppl arrested for shoplifting and other non violent crimes

This weekend PBF and @Phillybailout are teaming up to defend the right of protesters in the streets this weekend. Will you join us by making a donation to the bail funds. You can donate https://t.co/Utp0GEW8j2 https://t.co/Bcw7hPIdAj #endcashbail #freeourpeople

We need to know that the city will continue to respect our work as a community resource, and we need to end cash bail in Philadelphia.

Cash bail is costing the poorest Philadelphians tens of millions of dollars, which they desperately need for things like food, rent, and medical care. Our organization posts as many bails as we can, but it’s not enough, and we receive far more requests than we can afford to pay.

I’d like to think this can never happen here. But given Candidate Parker’s support of other troubling police tactics, such as “stop and frisk,” I’m far from sure. I urge her to declare that she will not target for prosecution any bail funds operating in Philadelphia.

The judge in the case told prosecutors he was not impressed and allowed the three organizers to go free (once they paid bail, of course.) Legal experts and civil rights activists nationwide have blasted the arrests as an attack on the foundations of the civil rights movement

It is that act of community solidarity that police in Atlanta are trying to label as criminal. Prosecutors there accused three organizers of the bail fund of money laundering.

Bail funds like ours work to raise money from the community and then pay the bails of as many people as possible as early as possible, to try to lessen the pain inflicted on our neighbors.

People held on bail are innocent until proven guilty, but are trapped behind bars unless they can come up with money for bail. In many cases, they cannot.

The most common bail in Philadelphia was $50,000 and the average bail was $290,260.

That’s about 54 percent of all the people who went to court. By comparison, Washington DC has about half as many people but, since they’ve gotten rid of cash bail, only 972 people were held before trial in 2022

That’s 9,007 people who were jailed based only on an accusation that they did something wrong—no trial, no evidence presented, and no chance to tell their side of the story.

Bail is still a huge problem in Philadelphia. Because the court won’t release comprehensive numbers, we had to assemble data on it from multiple sources. We found that, in 2022, there were at least 9,007 people held on a total of $2.9 billion in cash bail in Philadelphia.

I urge our mayor-to-be to condemn these arrests, and to join our call for an end to cash bail. Her position on both is unclear, as she was a notable no-show at our mayor’s forum last month

Both cities have a long, ugly history of overpolicing Black communities. Both cities use a cash bail system as part of their criminal courts.

Their alleged crime: running a bail fund.I’m the Director of Organizing for the Philadelphia Bail Fund. When I heard about this attack on our sister fund, I immediately realized that the same thing could happen here.

A terrifying scene played out in Atlanta last week, and I want to know what Cherelle Parker thinks about it. A SWAT team, armed with assault rifles and flash grenades, burst down the door of a home in a quiet neighborhood and arrested three people.

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