As Black Lives Matter uprisings continue to disrupt the nation, bail funds work to ensure the freedom of arrested protesters.
found, hundreds of counties across the country have a “10-to-1 ratio of over-representation” of incarcerated Black people. In other words, the portion of Black people that make up these counties’ prison populations is 10 times larger than the amount of Black people living in the surrounding county.
Sharlyn Grace, the executive director of the Chicago Community Bond Fund, illustrates the disparities in her city’s jail makeup. “It is really important in understanding the work in Chicago to know that it is overwhelmingly Black people in Black communities who are harmed by money bail and pretrial jailing,” she tells. “Twenty-five percent of people in Cook County are Black, but 75 percent of people in Cook County Jail are Black.”of their enslaved loved ones.
“They’re predicated and built out of the idea that communities are standing up for community members,” says Pilar Weiss, director of theA photo of The Bail Project staff.Bail funds, which fundamentally differ from the services that bondsmen provide, operate on a revolving basis since the money is returned once a defendant appears at their court date, meaning that a single donation could potentially contribute to the freedom of multiple people over a vast period of time.
“So, it’s really like free money for the bondsman,” says Cherise Burdeen, one of the executive partners for the. “Just another form of exploitation. And the thing that sort of gives you the pit-in-your-stomach sickness about it is that it’s not like it even works. It’s not even like it’s got a point, right?”
Burdeen reiterates that most people who have been bailed out by community bail funds return to court on their own, even as they lack the incentive of having their bail fee returned to their own wallets. But what about those who do happen to miss their court dates? “It’s not an absconding or a flight-from-justice kind of thing,” says Burdeen. “It’s more like a missed appointment. Either they couldn’t get off work or get childcare or eldercare.
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