Criminal Legal System
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Faces of Bail Reform
People directly affected by our wealth-based criminal legal system tell their stories.
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How to Honor Civil Rights Leaders
Tags Share This week during 1964, the late Attorney General Robert Kennedy painted a bleak picture. Jails were a place where poor men were sent to rot, while rich men went home to await court dates. “Bail has become a vehicle for systematic injustice,” my father told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing. “Every…
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RFK Human Rights Helps Fund Community Bond Program
Tags Share In the spring of 2020, activist organization Mano Amiga launched its community bond program in the hopes of releasing people from Hays County Jail who couldn’t otherwise afford their freedom. The program, funded by a $75,000 grant from the National Bail Project and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, provides the full cash bond…
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Colin Kaepernick Teams Up With RFK Human Rights to Support Community Bail Funds
Tags Share As jails across the country experience a heightened risk of infection during the pandemic, Colin Kaepernick and his Know Your Rights Camp have teamed up with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights to help. The groups announced on Thursday morning that they will be partnering with dozens of community bail funds and local organizers—providing…
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Kerry Kennedy, Colin Kaepernick Commit $1 Million to Supporting Community Bail Funds
The Funds for Freedom partnership will accelerate the work of local organizers to release people from jails threatened by COVID-19.
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RFK Human Rights, Michigan Liberation Free People From Jail as Coronavirus Concerns Rise
Emptying jails must be a crucial public health priority to stem the spread of the virus.
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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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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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