Referrals are closed!

We will reopen on August 1st.

Please note that starting July 1st, MBF will be shortening our referral window from 1st to 15th to 1st to 10th of each month.

We are shortening this window from 1st to 10th of the month so our small staff can work through an ever increasing amount of applications per month in a timely manner.

The below guidelines reflect our current financial and staff capacity and are subject to change. We love our people and we want to help if we can, so should your situation fall outside of these guidelines, please email information@massbailfund.org. Please read this page in entirety and then scroll all the way to the bottom to access the button link for the application.

The Massachusetts Bail Fund is an abolitionist and non-judgmental bail fund.

We do not factor charges, court history, and circumstance in posting bail.

    • Billerica House of Corrections

    • MCI Framingham

    • Middleton House of Corrections 

    • Suffolk County House of Corrections

    • Nashua Street Jail

    • Worcester County House of Corrections

    • Ludlow House of Corrections

    • Western Mass Regional Women's Correctional Center

    • We DO NOT post bail anywhere else

    • We will post up to $1000 per person!

    • Our funds are rotating, which means if an individual's case resolves the funds returned become available for them again upto $1000.

    • We will cover any bail commissioner fee assessed (usually $40)

  • Beginning Jan 2026, MBF is no longer able to post bail for community members with active warrants that would result in their inability to be released after bail posting. This is due to a number of reasons including the most effective use of our limited resources as well as outcomes for the community member. If the warrants were to be removed and the community member releasable, MBF will gladly consider posting bail for them. If in the process of bailing, we find out that a community member has a warrant, we will be pulling them from our bail list.

    • Referrals are generally accepted from court-appointed counsel.  If your loved one is held on a bail that we can post, we are committed to helping.  Please email information@massbailfund.org with as much information as you have about the case and we will help. 

    • The Massachusetts Bail Fund will currently contribute up to $1000.00 where the bail is over $1000.00 and all but $1000.00 has been collected.  In situations where the Bail Fund contributes to a persons bail, the Bail Fund and the person' friend or family member will be co-sureties.  Once the case is concluded, the friend or family member can go on their own to retrieve their share of the bail. 

  • At this time, we are currently UNABLE to do GPS postings that need to be done in court unless they are in Suffolk County. If you are asking for bail help for someone who has a GPS condition, that condition must read "24 hours after release".

    HOWEVER, At Billerica House of Corrections, Western Mass Regional Women's Correctional Center, Ludlow House of Corrections and MCI Framingham WE ARE ABLE to post bail for those with GPS conditions and the jail will transport them to court for GPS fitting the next morning. 

Transportation

Because of COVID-19 safety concerns, MBF can not guarantee arranging transportation for people who are released once bail is posted.  There are some options for transportation from the jails outlined below.  

  • The staff at Middleton HOC will provide transportation to the police precinct that the person was arrested in. Family members can also pick up their loved ones at the HOC, which is preferred.

  • If there is someone who can provide transportation, please provide contact information on the form and we will coordinate with them.  If there is no transportation plan, the person will be released to the street. The closets train is the Andrew red line station, 17 minute walk from the jail but a straight walk down south hampton st. 

    Buses: 

    • 1 (Washington St @ Massachusetts Ave to Nubian Square, 15 minute walk) 

    • 15 (Washington St @ Massachusetts Ave to Mattapan via Nubian & Fields Corner, 15 minute walk)

    • 8 (Mass Ave @ Albany St to Harbor Point Kenmore Station, 9 minute walk, last 11:45 PM), 

    • SL4 (Washington St @ Massachusetts Ave to Nubian, 15 minute walk, last 12:49 AM)

  • If there is someone who can provide transportation, please provide contact information on the form and we will coordinate with them.  If there is no transportation plan, the person will be released to the street. There is the green line stop to the left coming out of the jail's front entrance, called Park Science/West end. The orange line is a less than five minute walk to the right out the front door down Nashua St and on the left where TD Garden building is.

  • MBF staff/volunteers cannot provide transportation from the HOC. If there is someone who can provide transportation, please provide contact information on the form and we will coordinate with them.  If there is no transportation plan, the person will be released to the street.

  • This jail does not offer rides to people being released during the 4:30 pm bail call. If the person has a ride, that is most preferred and should be noted in the application. If they do not, we will do our best to coordinate transportation.

  • This jail does offer transportation  to people being released during the 7 pm bail call The jail will provide people being released  a one way train ticket and a ride to the train station. If the person has a prearranged ride, that is most preferred and should be noted in the application.

  • This jail does not offer rides to people being released during the 4:30 pm bail call. If the person has a ride, that is most preferred and should be noted in the application. There is a bus that comes to the jail to pick people up who are released before 6:30 pm from the 4:30 pm bail call.

  • This prison does not offer rides to people being released during the 5 pm bail call. If the person has a ride, that is most preferred and should be noted in the application. MBF in some cases may be able to provide a ride but that needs to be arranged before hand through the application and is not guaranteed.​

We rely on attorneys who refer clients to us to let us know the essential information we need in order to post and pickup bail efficiently.  

We expect attorneys to read the above requirements and to let us know the following information when cases close:

  1. Date of Case Closure - what date does/did the case resolve?

  2. Case Disposition - for example: Dismissal, or Guilty-Probation for 6 months

  3. Attorney Fee Status- Bails are not available for pickup until the attorney fee is fulfilled in some way.

The need for our assistance is bottomless.  The Massachusetts Bail Fund is dedicated to helping as many people as we can, and to do this we rely on attorneys to let us know case information as quickly as possible.