We are doing it again. This Mother's Day we are bailing out mamas in cities around the country to give incarcerated mothers an opportunity to spend Mother’s Day with their families. National Mama’s Bail Out Day is coordinated effort by more than a dozen organizations to reunite families on Mother's Day and bring attention to the true costs of money bail and mass incarceration. In the tradition of literally buying our people’s freedom, we are setting Black women free from the jaws of incarceration.
Money should not determine anyone’s freedom. No one should be separated from their loved ones simply because they are too poor to afford bail. We need to abolish the for-profit bail industry. We do that by continuing to highlight the destabilizing impact of the money bail system on Black families. Most importantly, we do that through acts of love and generosity for Black people.