POSTPONED | VIRTUAL PROGRAM | Freedom Should Be Free
Date and Time
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
POSTPONED - Rescheduled date to be announced soon.
Location
Webinar via Zoom - access this program remotely from your computer, tablet, or smartphone + dial-in available.
Fees/Admission
$0.00 Members
$25.00 Nonmembers
No refunds.
Interested in membership? More info here.
Description
In this country you are innocent until proven guilty, right? Actually... not necessarily. Six out of 10 people in U.S. jails (nearly half a million people on any given day) are in pretrial detention for months or even years, waiting for a trial or to go before a judge--simply because they cannot afford bail.
Join us to learn more about...
- The genesis of money bail and pretrial detention and their impact on marginalized populations
- The inequities of the criminal punishment system
- How community bail funds help strengthen poor and underserved people and neighborhoods
Speaker Bio
Chloe Cooper is co-founder of the Kansas City Community Bail Fund, a revolving bail fund that posts bail for those who cannot afford it themselves. She has worked for the reStart homeless agency as a caseworker and is passionate about making a difference in the lives of poor, disenfranchised, and marginalized populations. Chloe has a degree in Child and Family Development from the University of Central Missouri. As a student there, she received a leadership award for her work developing diversity training programs for young children. 
