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CALEB is building a community fund to help eligible defendants get the bail money they need, but can’t afford.
Personal wealth should not be the basis for determining if a person, presumed innocent, is a flight risk or danger to the community.
With the Hamilton County Community Bail Fund, our neighbors can return home to await trial, allowing them to continue their lives - go to their jobs, be with loved ones, access medicine. When they show up to court, the money for bail goes back into the fund in order to help free the next person. By working together, the bail fund creates a self-sustaining resource for our community and takes a step towards creating a more just system.
Personal wealth should not be the basis for determining if a person, presumed innocent, is a flight risk or danger to the community.
With the Hamilton County Community Bail Fund, our neighbors can return home to await trial, allowing them to continue their lives - go to their jobs, be with loved ones, access medicine. When they show up to court, the money for bail goes back into the fund in order to help free the next person. By working together, the bail fund creates a self-sustaining resource for our community and takes a step towards creating a more just system.
*Pretrial Detainees in Hamilton County
2019 Monthly Averages
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850
Pretrial inmates in Hamilton County Jail and Silverdale Detention Facility Excludes federal inmates awaiting trial. (2019 monthly average) (57% of total inmates) Calculated using TN Jail Summary Reports. |
500
Pretrial defendants appointed to Public Defenders Office because defendants are unable to hire a lawyer. (2019 monthly average) (50% charged with misdemeanors) Mike Little, Deputy Public Defender, Hamilton County |
$1.7 M
Pretrial inmates' monthly cost to county taxpayers to house people not convicted of any crime and presumed innocent. Excludes federal inmates awaiting trial. (2019 monthly average) Calculated using $100,000/day cost (Sheriff Hammond) and TN Jail Summary Reports. |
*PRETRIAL DETAINEE is the "term applied to the defendant who is held prior to their trial on criminal charges
because no bail is posted or is denied a pre-trial release." Black's Law Dictionary
because no bail is posted or is denied a pre-trial release." Black's Law Dictionary
