1/ Community bail funds are never the solution but bc of slow &/or no action by gov’t officials on COVID-19 in jails & prisons, we have had to dig deep. All week local bail funds across the country spent every $ they could to get folks free & safe. #FreeThemAll
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2/ Many bail posting windows are closed over the wknd, but these amazing community bail & bond funds will be back at it on Monday to #FreeThemAll. You can find & support your local fund @ bit.ly/localbailfunds or support rapid COVID-19 bail posting at bit.ly/covidbailfund
3/Incarceration has always been a public health crisis. Jails, prisons & immigration jails have always been sites of violence and death. COVID-19 has only exacerbated this. Knowing we must continue to push to #FreeThemAll, local bail & bond funds posted $ to free 100s this week.
4/@ChiBondFund posted bond to free 20 people from Cook County Jail & called for real decarceral action after county repeatedly failed to act as the crisis escalates inside. #FreeThemAll
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5/@MNFreedomFund repeatedly posted bail last week (sometimes for as little as $78) & called on state and county leaders to #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth.
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6/Beautiful bond fund collaborations w/ @BeyonBondBos @RAICESTexas @baybondfund @FianzaFund @BelieverBailOut @MigrantFreedom @migrantbailfund got over 100 people out of immigration jails as COVID-19 spread. These funds worked 2gether to #FreeThemAll when ICE put up more barriers.
7/@JustCity’s Memphis Community Bail Fund paid bail ransom to free 27 people & called on Shelby County to #FreeThemAll as COVID-19 spread.
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8/Organizers all across TN are demanding that we #FreeThemAll & @NashBailFund and @ActionCaleb bailed folks out in Nashville and Chattanooga.
9/In NY, @BKBailFund @NewSanctuaryNYC @FirstFrndsnjny collaborated together to post bond for folks in immigration jail all week. Our calls to #FreeThemAll include jails, prisons, AND immigration jails.
10/Community bail funds are built on solidarity & @Phillybailout and @phillybailfund showed us that every day this week as they collectively paid bail to free over 100 people & called for real action to #FreeThemAll as Philly’s jail continued to see no decreases in this crisis.
11/@NWComBailFund paid bail to free folks in Seattle and Tacoma, WA, while demanding that local officials must increase their actions to #FreeThemAll.
12/@FreeTucson (Tucson Second Chance Community Bail Fund) called on city and county to #FreeThemAll and paid bails as low as $50 as people continue to be jailed during COVID-19.
13/Louisiana has been hard hit by COVID-19 but work to #FreeThemAll is strong! @NOLAFreedomFund posted bail all week to free folks from New Orleans jail & @ywca_br Community Bail Fund freed folks incarcerated in Baton Rouge.
14/As officials in New York have been slow to act in the face of absolute COVID-19 crisis at Rikers, @release_fund has been
15/@FreedomFundCO has been part of demands to the governor and local jails for immediate decareration action in the COVID-19 crisis, but also posting bail daily to #FreeThemAll.
16/Meanwhile, sister CO fund @ImmigrantFund posting immigration bond in Aurora to free people from immigration jail & demand that all in ICE detention be freed!
17/In Las Vegas, @PLANevada’s Vegas Freedom Fund posting bail on Friday night as they urgently call on elected leaders to #FreeThemAll.
18/@LGBTQ_Freedom Fund posting bail in Miami and South Florida as despite declarations by politicians, jails continue to be full of people unable to pay bail for freedom during COVID-19 pandemic. #FreeThemAll
19/The dual action of demanding we #FreeThemAll while also posting bail to free folks NOW was everywhere this week: @nccbailfund in Durham, @RaceMattersCoMO in Columbia, @ctbailfund in New Haven; @FreeThe350 in Madison; @RVABailFund in Richmond…and so many more.
20/Whether it was community bail funds posting pretrial bail or immigration bond, @bailfundnetwork funds (and so many other comrades & partners) spent this hard week fighting to #FreeThemAll in every way they could. We need mass release NOW. But we are also running out of time.
21/We know that we are all we really have. Support your local bail/bond fund to free folks now while we all fight to #FreeThemAll– bit.ly/localbailfunds
22/In some places, posting bail/bond is becoming difficult or impossible (because of COVID-19 safety and system closures that do not prioritize freedom) so we also have a rapid response fund to be able to get bail/bond payment to folks quickly – bit.ly/covidbailfund
