Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

One Dollar Bail, But Still in Jail
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
25 Feb 2020
🖨️ Print Article

Despite the abolition of bail for many offenses in New York State, thousands of people remain lockup up because of hurdles created by bureaucracy and hostile jail personnel, said Amanda Lawson, co-founder of the Dollar Bail Brigade. “Something that was meant to keep track of time-served has led to people regularly being kept incarcerated for just one dollar bail,” said Lawson, whose volunteers have assisted hundreds of New Yorkers to gain their release.

Mass Black Incarceration

Related Podcasts

Involuntary Servitude in the Prison System
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Involuntary Servitude in the Prison System
24 June 2022
Savannah Eldrige is the founder of Coaliton to Abolish Slave
White Capitalist Law vs “Uncontrollable Blackness”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
White Capitalist Law vs “Uncontrollable Blackness”
01 September 2020
The United States “criminalizes Black Americans,” but Black men “are not looking to be controlled” by this racist system, said Douglas
 Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill
25 August 2020
The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, IWOC, “is committed to the militant organizing of prisoners that takes its leadership and focus from

More Stories


  • Kamm Howard
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Political Class "Illegitimate"
    22 Aug 2017
    Veteran activist Kamm Howard, speaking at the national conference of the Black Is Back Coalition, in Chicago, said data show Black peoples’ two main “desires” are reparations and self-determination
  • Ajamu Baraka
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black American More Vulnerable Than Ever
    22 Aug 2017
    “We are, in essence, a redundant population” that is “no longer an important part of the U.S.
  • Dr. Anthony Monteiro
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Uncle Sam Overdosing on War
    22 Aug 2017
    Washington’s European allies are tired of endless U.S. wars, said Duboisian scholar and Black Radical Organizing Committee activist Dr. Anthony Monteiro. Americans are fed up, too.
  • Mumia Abu Jamal: Tear Down These Walls
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Tear Down Those Prison Walls
    22 Aug 2017
    In an essay for Prison Radio, Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal said the U.S.
  • prisoners 01
    Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
    Millions for Prisoners’ Human Rights March in DC
    17 Aug 2017
    The world’s largest slave system -- the U.S. prison gulag – was legalized by an “exception” to the Constitution.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us