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Colorado Freedom Fund.
Colorado Freedom Fund (CFF) pays cash bail for our neighbors trapped in Colorado cages. We help facilitate pretrial liberty for people who cannot afford the cost of money bond and lead the policy work to advance lasting change in Colorado through legislation and legal advocacy.
As abolitionists, we work to end wealth based detention by supporting legislation, litigation, and direct action that advance collective liberation.
Money bond penalizes people for the crime of being poor. While people with money can pay their way out of jail after being arrested, poor people don’t have that luxury. That’s where CFF comes in. By being free while awaiting trial, people are able to maintain family relationships, stay employed, keep housing, take care of their health, and meet many personal goals. People who are free on pretrial release are less likely to plead guilty, more likely to have their cases dismissed, and better able to assist in their own defense from positions of liberty and power.
Poverty is not a crime.
Since 2018, CFF has been a proud member of the National Bail Fund Network. "A unifying principle that guides the Network is a belief that bail funds are a temporary intervention, not a permanent solution to the mass injustices embodied by the criminal legal system. We believe bail funds can play a critical and immediate harm reduction role and have a long and important history as a way for communities to push back on an unjust system."
CFF is an abolitionist-led non-profit via our 501c3 fiscal sponsor, and we are fighting to work ourselves out of existence.
CFF should not have to exist.
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