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UC San Diego Extension Teams Up with RFK Human Rights
Tags Share University of California San Diego Extension will be teaming up with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Speak Truth to Power program as its first partner on the West Coast. The collaboration will expand the reach of Speak Truth to Power’s human rights education resources into more classrooms across the United States, infusing invaluable…
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Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Suspending Immigration
Tags Share At a time when our leaders should be bringing this country together, Donald Trump continues to sow division and hate. His call to suspend immigration to the U.S. is nothing more than a shameless attempt to blame immigrants for his own administration’s failure to competently manage the coronavirus crisis. Xenophobia should have no…
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CBS: Activists Rush to Bail Out People in Jails Across the Country Amid Coronavirus Threat
Tags Share As experts warn how quickly the coronavirus can spread inside jails, community bond funds are working overtime to free people from pretrial detention and looking to outside organizations to help ramp up their efforts. One of these groups is Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. The organization announced it will be providing extra financial…
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RFK Human Rights and Texas Partners Free People From Jail as Coronavirus Spreads
Any rational response to the pandemic must prioritize decreasing jail populations before it’s too late.
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No Place in NYS Budget for Bail Reform Reversals
As crowded jail conditions eliminate the ability to practice necessary social distancing, it would not only be a disservice to the New York public, but a danger, to tuck rollbacks to the state’s bail reform law into the FY2021 spending plan.
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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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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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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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