JOTF’s CEO Caryn York was named a “Game Changer,” by Baltimore Magazine!

JOTF’s CEO Caryn York was named a “Game Changer,” by Baltimore Magazine! Thank you Corey McLaughlin for a holistic look at JOTF’s mission, policy work, programming and the communities that we serve.  As we reflect on JOTF’s 25th anniversary, we are humbled and grateful for the spotlight from our friends @baltimoremag. Read the profile at https://tinyurl.com/43nktevz.

Here are two highlights:

“Individuals are sitting in jail, for non-violent offenses, more often than not, simply because they’re poor, because they don’t have $100.” – Caryn York on JOTF’s Community Bail Fund, learn more about the Fund at https://tinyurl.com/yz7e9ywp

“There’s no way in the world you can do the work of economic justice in Baltimore City and not recognize the very incestuous intersection between race, criminality, and poverty here.”  Read our 2018 groundbreaking report, The Criminalization of Poverty: How to Break the Cycle Through Policy Reform in Maryland at https://tinyurl.com/ej384eym

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