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Lancaster Bail Fund Creating a more just and humane pretrial system in Lancaster County through a revolving bail fund. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/lancaster-bail-fund-1

Check out this opportunity is for previously incarcerated and system impacted individuals. They will pay you to learn an...
07/27/2026

Check out this opportunity is for previously incarcerated and system impacted individuals. They will pay you to learn and provide transportation to and from!!! šŸ’”

Today was a great night for a Game night! If you didnā€™t catch it tonight there will be other opportunities to play! Penn...
06/14/2026

Today was a great night for a Game night! If you didnā€™t catch it tonight there will be other opportunities to play!

Pennsylvania has thousands of laws is the perfect way to familiarize yourself with them because ignorance is no defense!!!

Major S/O to for always being An amazing host and Metros Express for always delivering right on timešŸ•šŸ•šŸ•

05/17/2026

Big Thank you to everyone who could come out today to the Hempfield Apothetique to play with us. We Laughed We ate thanks Metro Express for the great pizza deal. Most importantly we held discussion about things we knew and learned things we didnā€™t!

Three people. Same number. Completely different stories.$7,500 for a 20-year-old with no record who was scared, ran, and...
03/31/2026

Three people. Same number. Completely different stories.

$7,500 for a 20-year-old with no record who was scared, ran, and was tased by police.
$7,500 for a 60 + year old man in a spousal dispute.
$3,000 for a 40-year-old battling addiction, charged with PWID.

All of them would be sitting in jail right now if Lancasterā€™s community & the Lancaster Bail Fund didnā€™t step in. Not convicted. Not sentenced. Just held because of money.

And thatā€™s the part people donā€™t want to sit withā€¦ bail isnā€™t about guilt, harm, safety or consistency. Itā€™s a number. Assigned. And if you canā€™t meet it, you sit.

According to the Prison Policy Initiative, about 70% of people in jails are pretrial, legally innocent and locked up simply because they canā€™t afford to pay.

So how does a scared 20-year-old, a man in a domestic dispute, and someone battling addiction all get translated into a dollar amount? And why is freedom something weā€™re expected to buy back?

This week alone, we paid over $18,000 to bring people home. Not because the system worked, but because we refused to let money decide who stays caged.

Lancaster is preparing to invest millions more into incarceration while weā€™re out here paying for peopleā€™s freedom one life at a time. This is what it means when we say freedom is priced, and poverty is punished.

03/31/2026

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03/30/2026

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled that mandatory death-by-incarceration for felony murder is unconstitutional.Fo...
03/27/2026

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court just ruled that mandatory death-by-incarceration for felony murder is unconstitutional.

For decades, people were automatically sentenced to die in prison.
No second chances. No individual review. No consideration of who they are.

And hereā€™s the part people donā€™t like to talk about:
you didnā€™t even have to be the one who killed someone.

Just being involved was enough to disappear you.

This ruling cracks that open.

Over 1,000+ people in Pennsylvania were serving these sentences.
Now, there is at least a path to be seen again.

But letā€™s not confuse movement with justice.

Because systems donā€™t suddenly become fair ā€”
they get pushed, challenged, and forced to change.

Here in Lancaster, we know exactly what it looks like when systems decide who is disposable. āœŠšŸ¾āœŠšŸæ

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