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New Campaign Accelerates Efforts to Free People from Jails Across the Country
We are taking action where elected officials have failed to do so, to protect people who are trapped in jail simply because they cannot afford to pay bail.
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Advocates Post Bond for 20 People in Baton Rouge Amid Coronavirus Concerns
Tags Share Among the things that have happened since Landon Davis got arrested and charged with simple robbery last summer: His fiance gave birth to their baby daughter—and a global pandemic arrived in Louisiana, upending normal life for state residents as the death toll continues to rise. Davis couldn’t afford his $5,000 bond, so he…
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RFK Human Rights, Freedom Fund to Bail Out Dozens of Floridians From Jail
“Every day we keep someone needlessly incarcerated during this crisis is a matter of life and death and we can’t delay action any longer,” says Kerry Kennedy.
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RFK Human Rights and YWCA Greater Baton Rouge Post Bond for 27 People
No one deserves to be held in pretrial detention, especially during a global health crisis, just because they can’t afford to pay cash bail.
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Bail Reform Is a Matter of Public Health During COVID-19
For over half a century, we’ve known that cash bail violates our moral obligations and civil rights. Now, public health is on the line.
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Emergency Action to Bail Out New Orleanians at Risk of COVID-19
The move, in partnership with the Safety and Freedom Fund at Operation Restoration, will release 22 people held in pretrial detention simply because they cannot afford to pay bail.
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Exclusive: COVID Threat Triggers Jail Bailouts
Tags Share As jails prove to be dangerous hot spots for the coronavirus, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has partnered with community bail funds and local organizers across the country, including Just City in Memphis, Tennessee, to free as many people from pretrial detention while we could still save lives. For Josh Spickler, executive director…
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Remembering Social Justice in Times of Social Distancing
Our response to the coronavirus pandemic must be tethered to a strong sense of equity for all.
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We’re Taking the Trump Administration to Court
The Commission on Unalienable Rights’ discriminatory work must be stopped. Without action we risk the destruction of decades of progress by the human rights movement and emboldening oppressive regimes everywhere.
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RFK Human Rights Sues Trump, Pompeo
A bold effort to check the powers of a secret State Department commission formed to revoke human rights from millions.
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Human Rights Orgs Sue Sec. Pompeo for Unlawful Commissionv
Slanted Membership, Withheld Records and Closed Door Meetings Violate Federal Law
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Human Rights Groups Sue Pompeo to Disband State Department Commission
Tags Share RFK Human Rights, in partnership with Democracy Forward, has brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration to terminate its unlawful Commission on Unalienable Rights. Read the full article
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