No one should be in jail due to poverty. We are a nonprofit that provides free bail assistance, reunites families, and restores the presumption of innocence.
Nov 19, 2018 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🚨San Diego!🚨
YOU can directly support the #MigrantCaravan & get people out of detention. By serving as a “custodian” for someone charged under the Trump admin’s “zero-tolerance” policy, you can ensure someone’s release & give them a fighting chance at asylum. Here’s how: /1
We’ve been posting bail for people charged w/ “illegal entry” in SD under #OperationStreamline. The court made it harder for us to post bail by requiring people have “custodians” in the community in order to be released, even if their bail's been paid. /2
THREAD. We're thrilled people are suddenly interested in the presumption of innocence!
Since everyone's finally talking about what was intended to be a bedrock of the American legal system, let's set some facts straight!
The presumption of innocence, in theory, applies to all criminal legal proceedings in the U.S. It means the accused should be treated as "guilty until proven innocent."
The Eighth Amendment explicitly prohibits excessive bail as one way to safeguard this presumption.
