This funding will support Community Bonds, also known as the CT Bail Fund, an organization with a mission to reduce the immediate harms of mass criminalization, incarceration and deportation while building power among those most impacted by these systems. The CT Bail Fund operates the Pretrial Defense Fund, which has helped to free hundreds of community members from pretrial incarceration, allowing them to return and defend themselves from home. The goal of this funding is to help Community Bonds to transform the justice system in CT through bail reform and participatory defense movements that are led by those directly affected. This unrestricted grant will help support the CT Bail Fund in its endeavor to grow and strengthen its Pretrial Defense Fund, Immigrant Bail Fund and Family Justice/Participatory Defense Hub.
