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Mar 19, 2021

JOTF’s CEO Caryn York sits down with WYPR’s Sheilah Kast.

Our CEO Caryn York was featured on WYPR, a Maryland affiliate of NPR. She was a guest on the popular morning show, On the Record with Sheilah Kast. Listen to her compelling and wide-ranging conversation in which she discusses the growth and evolution of JOTF's Community Bail Fund for Baltimore City. Join our movement and visit jotf.org/donate to contribute.

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DYK: A recent Bloomberg report revealed that 60% of those incarcerated have not been convicted of a crime; they are jailed only b/c they cannot afford bail. This discriminatory system unduly keeps low-income populations, especially Black and Brown communities, in the tentacular grip of poverty. See report: https://tinyurl.com/yvv6suvy

JOTF’s Bail Fund seeks to dismantle this systemic criminalization of poverty and race by securing the release for low income residents incarcerated due to an unaffordable cash bail or costly home detention fees. But it doesn’t stop there. We provide intensive, personalized case management to help the individuals we bail out find the right services - from support to address housing and food insecurity to setting them on the path to realizing their educational and career dreams.

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Feb 23, 2021

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

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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