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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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