Jack, reproductive justice isn't just about securing access to abortion. It's also about ensuring that people who want to parent are able to do so without being hampered by their government. Unfortunately, our unjust cash bail system is a huge hindrance to reproductive justice.
Right now, hundreds of thousands of women and femme caregivers are unable to provide care for their families because they are being held in cages while awaiting trial. In a free and fair society, people who have not been found guilty of crimes would not suffer the consequences of a guilty verdict, nor would they be ripped away from their children.
The National Bail Out has been freeing presumed-innocent mothers and caregivers for years, especially in time to spend Mother's Day with their loved ones celebrating all they do to keep them fed, sheltered, clothed, and loved.
You can help us make it possible for even more women and femme parents and caregivers to be with their families while they await trial. Please donate $5 to help free some mamas from jail.
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Keep fighting,
Irna Landrum, Daily Kos
P.S. You can read my earlier email about unjust bail practices and the National Bail Out below:
Jack, in the U.S. criminal justice system, people accused of crimes are supposed to be presumed innocent until proven otherwise. However, with our cash bail system, only people with enough money and resources to buy their way out get to experience pre-trial freedom.
Meanwhile, people who cannot afford to buy their freedom get caged and torn away from their families, communities, and jobs–sometimes for years. Among the 15,000 people incarcerated at Rikers Island, 80% have been convicted of nothing, or even faced trial. Yet, they languish in jail, in horrid, inhumane conditions.
Since police more often target Black communities–who already disproportionately suffer economic injustices like wage theft and underemployment–with surveillance, racist policies like stop and frisk, pretextual traffic stops, Black families are severed far more often because a loved one is merely charged with a crime.
Cash bail is racist and unjust, and Black families are disproportionately torn apart by it. That's why we are asking you to donate at least $5 to help reunite Black mothers and caretakers with their families in time for Mother's Day.
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Statistically, people detained for longer periods tend to be convicted more often and receive harsher sentences than those who have the money for cash bail. Cash bail is not about justice: It is not a good determinant of someone's threat to public safety, or their likelihood to show up for trial. It simply rewards wealth with freedom, and punishes poverty with cages.
Black families bear a disparate amount of the brunt of this injustice. Not only are families ripped apart, but they often lose a wage earner, a primary caretaker, and a key part of their support systems when Black mamas are unjustly jailed, throwing their families further into debt and poverty.
At the same time, jails make it unnecessarily difficult and often dehumanizing for family members to visit a loved one behind bars. That's why, whenever we have the chance, we need to help get mamas out of cages and back home to their families.
Mother's Day is just around the corner. Will you donate $5 to reunite Black mamas with their families in time to celebrate together?
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Thank you and keep fighting,
Irna Landrum, Daily Kos
Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612.
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