bail fund
Jail freedom pool
A bail fund is a pool of money used to pay bail for people who cannot afford it, allowing them to leave jail while awaiting trial.
These funds are typically organized as nonprofits and often focus on low-income defendants or those arrested during protests: Donations to the bail fund surged after the demonstrations.
The premise is that pretrial detention should not depend on wealth.
- bondBinding tie or connection
- releaseTo let go
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- arrestSeize by law
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
get out of jail · money · donation · incarceration · pretrial · defendant · surety · charity · activist · reform · cash · collateral · nonprofit · abolition · criminal justice · social justice · solidarity · liberation
- fundsendowment, ETF, seed money
- civic actioncivic engagement, community organizing, grassroots organizing, grassroots movement, volunteering
bail fundbail bondsman
Guarantor of court appearance
surety bond · payday lender · personal loan · predatory lending · loan shark
bail, fund, bails, bailed, bailing, bailout, bailee, funds, funded