The Massachusetts Bail Fund
immediate suspension of Massachusetts Bail Fund operations-3/20/2020
We have worked as hard as we can this past week getting as many people as we could out of jail by posting bail. we were able to free an additional 92 people and spent nearly $100,000. MA forces bails to be posted in person, with numerous contact points between banks, jails, bail commissioners, courts, and probation. There is no way to post bail online or over the phone and we can no longer safely operate.
Effective immediately, we can no longer support requests for bail assistance.
A bail fund is not, and never has been, the solution to cash bail. All public health information points to jails being incredibly dangerous during a pandemic. The people in power - Judges, District Attorneys, Sherriffs, and Police Chiefs have the obligation to use their considerable power to #FreeThemAll for the safety of both people incarcerated and for jail staff.
MBF is a volunteer run, grassroots organization. a number of our volunteers fall into especially vulnerable popultions. we call on those in power, who, with a stroke of a pen, could release hundreds of people from experiencing this pandemic with limited access to soap, clean water, and in extremely close proximity to one another. Social Distancing is not an option in jails and prisons.
while we cannot offer bail support at this time, our work is note done. Please join us in pushing all stakeholders, including the Governor, to step up and do what we, the community, wants. Along with numerous community organizations, we signed on to the following letter to the governor. We urge you to push your appointeds and electeds as well. tinyurl.com/covid19MA
For more information and updates on the mass push for release and other mutual aid projects you can support at this time
please follow the following groups on twitter:
https://twitter.com/justicehealing
https://twitter.com/CourtWatchMA
https://twitter.com/MassBailFund
https://twitter.com/BlackAndPinkBos
https://twitter.com/MAAPMass
Effective immediately, we can no longer support requests for bail assistance.
A bail fund is not, and never has been, the solution to cash bail. All public health information points to jails being incredibly dangerous during a pandemic. The people in power - Judges, District Attorneys, Sherriffs, and Police Chiefs have the obligation to use their considerable power to #FreeThemAll for the safety of both people incarcerated and for jail staff.
MBF is a volunteer run, grassroots organization. a number of our volunteers fall into especially vulnerable popultions. we call on those in power, who, with a stroke of a pen, could release hundreds of people from experiencing this pandemic with limited access to soap, clean water, and in extremely close proximity to one another. Social Distancing is not an option in jails and prisons.
while we cannot offer bail support at this time, our work is note done. Please join us in pushing all stakeholders, including the Governor, to step up and do what we, the community, wants. Along with numerous community organizations, we signed on to the following letter to the governor. We urge you to push your appointeds and electeds as well. tinyurl.com/covid19MA
For more information and updates on the mass push for release and other mutual aid projects you can support at this time
please follow the following groups on twitter:
https://twitter.com/justicehealing
https://twitter.com/CourtWatchMA
https://twitter.com/MassBailFund
https://twitter.com/BlackAndPinkBos
https://twitter.com/MAAPMass
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