Brooklyn Community Bail Fund is committed to challenging the racism, inequality, and injustice of a criminal legal system and immigration and deportation regime that disproportionately target and harm low-income communities of color.

From 2015 to 2019, BCBF paid bail for nearly 5,000 presumptively innocent New Yorkers, effectively securing over 750 years of freedom for people who would otherwise have been sent to Rikers while awaiting trial because they could not afford even small amounts of bail.

Since 2018, BCBF's New York Immigration Freedom Fund program has paid over $4 million in immigration bond to secure the freedom of more than 500 immigrant New Yorkers from ICE detention and reunite them with their families and communities.

But we know that paying bail—and now immigration bond—alone cannot solve the problem. That’s why BCBF is committed to challenging wealth-based detention in all forms and proud to serve as an incubator of high impact initiatives, often in partnership with other community-based organizations, that target legislative policy reform and systems change.