Mushmouth
11-04-2018, 02:51 PM
“The Mass Bail Out is an opportunity to shine a light on the injustices of our bail system not only in New York City, but across the country.”
Currently, the bail system unjustly targets and punishes poor, black and brown people. The result is a jail population overwhelming made up of people experiencing poverty. In New York City alone, African American and Latino people make up 90 percent of the city’s jail population, but only slightly more than half of the general population.
https://rfkhumanrights.org/news/rfk-bail-action
And..
For the second day in a row, a defendant bailed out by the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation has flown the coop — failing to show for her next scheduled court date.
Ralphie Myree, 25, arrested in June for robbing a Chelsea sex shop at knifepoint, never bothered to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court Wednesday, prompting a judge to order a warrant for her arrest.
Now RFK will be forced to forfeit the $50,000 it paid to free her on Oct. 2.
The charity should have seen this coming — Myree, who has a lengthy rap sheet, failed to show up for court four times in the past, prosecutors said, while arguing for high bail on the sex-shop robbery charges.
On Tuesday, a Brooklyn judge ordered the arrest of RFK bailee Tamika West, 44, after she failed to show.
RFK did not respond to a request for comment.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/24/another-inmate-bailed-out-by-kennedy-charity-skips-court-date/
Currently, the bail system unjustly targets and punishes poor, black and brown people. The result is a jail population overwhelming made up of people experiencing poverty. In New York City alone, African American and Latino people make up 90 percent of the city’s jail population, but only slightly more than half of the general population.
https://rfkhumanrights.org/news/rfk-bail-action
And..
For the second day in a row, a defendant bailed out by the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation has flown the coop — failing to show for her next scheduled court date.
Ralphie Myree, 25, arrested in June for robbing a Chelsea sex shop at knifepoint, never bothered to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court Wednesday, prompting a judge to order a warrant for her arrest.
Now RFK will be forced to forfeit the $50,000 it paid to free her on Oct. 2.
The charity should have seen this coming — Myree, who has a lengthy rap sheet, failed to show up for court four times in the past, prosecutors said, while arguing for high bail on the sex-shop robbery charges.
On Tuesday, a Brooklyn judge ordered the arrest of RFK bailee Tamika West, 44, after she failed to show.
RFK did not respond to a request for comment.
https://nypost.com/2018/10/24/another-inmate-bailed-out-by-kennedy-charity-skips-court-date/