🌟 What is “Free Before Trial”? A movement focused on eliminating cash bail and ensuring that individuals are not incarcerated before their trial simply due to lack of money. Promotes fairness, safety, and constitutional rights.
"Free Before Trial" Cash Bail Reform
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"Free Before Trial"
🌟 What is “Free Before Trial”?
- A movement focused on eliminating cash bail and ensuring that individuals are not incarcerated before their trial simply due to lack of money.
- Promotes fairness, safety, and constitutional rights.
The Problem
Cash bail creates two systems of justice: one for the wealthy, one for the poor.
- 🕒 Individuals may sit in jail for weeks or months awaiting trial.
- 📉 Consequences include job loss, housing instability, and coerced guilty pleas
The impact
- 60% of people in U.S. jails are legally innocent and awaiting trial.
- Disproportionately affects low-income communities and people of color.
- Pretrial detention increases likelihood of conviction and longer sentences.
Why reform matters
- Promotes presumption of innocence.
- Encourages smarter, risk-based release decisions
- Builds trust between communities and justice systems.
Success stories
- New Jersey: eliminate4d cash bail for most cities – crime rates did not increase.
- Washington D.C.: release 94% of defendants pretrial with low failure-to-appear rates.
The "free before trail" approach
- End reliance on cash bail.
- Use risk assessments and community-based release programs.
- Support wraparound services like housing, job training, and court reminders.
What you can do
- Educate others and raise awareness.
- Support NEW BEGINNINGS HEALING FOUNDATION, INC. bail fund and reform.
- Advocate for legislative change locally and nationally.
CALL TO ACTION
"FREEDOM SHOULDN'T DEPEND ON YOUR WALLET"
- Join the "Free Before Trail" movement.
- Let justice be about truth, not money.
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