Philadelphia Community Bail Fund

03/28/2026

03/23/2026

When ICE agents tear apart our communities, we take to the streets. When the Trump administration tries to silence dissent, we get even louder. 📢💥

🗓️ Saturday, March 28

📍 Find a No Kings protest in PA! The ACLU-PA will be at events in Philly, Pittsburgh, Lancaster, and Erie. Join us or march in your neighborhood!

https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=aclu

03/23/2026

Ms. Rachel is fighting to close an ICE facility in Texas that's detaining children. She wants to "make sure that kids and their parents are back in their communities where they belong." https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/ms-rachel-ice-facility-detains-children-dilley-texas-1236696574/

"I am political. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border," she told NBC News.

Ms. Rachel recently had a video call with nine-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who is detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. The boy told her he "wants to leave and go to the spelling bee."

"It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail. It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter in life," she told the news outlet. "We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee. I just never thought those words would go together."

03/19/2026

Happy Gideon Day ⚖️✨💙

Public defense is about more than representation, it’s about second chances, fairness, and showing up for our communities in meaningful ways. That’s why we’re putting that into action through our Gideon Giveback: Record Clearing Clinic & Re-Entry Resource Fair, in partnership with Councilwoman Cindy Bass .

🗓 March 26 | ⏰ 11AM–3PM | 📍 Allegheny West Business Center

Join us for a day dedicated to second chances and connecting our community with essential resources like:

✔️ Expungements & record clearing
✔️ Probation termination screenings
✔️ Job re-entry resources
✔️ Know Your Rights discussions on early probation termination, gun statutes, and more
✔️ Free food + refreshments

🔗 Register for the event by hitting the link in bio.
Special thanks to our partners for helping make this possible: .market .solutions

03/16/2026

Wednesday March 18th is the last day we will accept new bail requests. We are temporarily stopping intake of new bail requests until we reopen for Black Mama's Bail Out on April 14th.

You can apply online at www.phillybailout.org or leave a message on our Bail Hotline at (267)225-6047.

01/28/2026

Tomorrow morning, ICE Out legislation will be introduced at City Hall.

ICE is already active in our city, disappearing our neighbors and terrorizing our community. We've all seen what is happening in Minneapolis. They've executed people in the street, raided public schools and day care centers, dragged elders out into the cold in their underwear, and kidnapped children. We expect Philly to soon be targeted for increased levels of terror as ICE increases their presence in our city. So it is imperative that we do what we can to protect our community.

This legislation reflects years of organizing and immigrant community leadership. Show up and demand ICE out of Philly! The sign up deadline for public testimony has passed, but you can still join your neighbors tomorrow morning to show your support and let City Council know how much we support this legislation.

01/14/2026

National Courtwatch Informational Session MLK Day January 20th 3pm. Register at bit.ly/mlkdaycw

01/14/2026

01/14/2026

PCBF's Lead Organizer Candace McKinley will be on the panel next week for WOMEN'S WAY's Closing the Gender Wealth Gap forum speaking on Freedom, Joy and Belonging. You can join us January 20th from 4 to 5pm. Register for the virtual forum at womensway.org/Freedom+Joy

01/12/2026

Too many are being killed by ICE on the streets and in detention centers. Parady La should be eating dinner now with his family rather than being another person killed by the state.

12/30/2025

Thanks to your support, we were able to free 146 of our neighbors in 2025 and post $1,134,290 in bail! Those neighbors included children as young as 15 years old, pregnant women, cancer patients, people with epilepsy, stroke survivors, caretakers of severely disabled children and elderly parents, and many others whose only hope for freedom was the bail fund.

We were also able to provide over $89,526 in mutual aid to help folk return to court, secure housing, and rebuild their lives after pretrial detention. That includes $8000 in emergency food aid given out this month.

Thank you to all of our donors, supporters, and grantors! We are only able to stand in the gap for our neighbors due to your support! Any donations given by 11:59 PM December 31st will be deductible from your 2025 taxes. You can give at phillybailout.org/donate Help us to free more of our neighbors in 2026!

12/29/2025

We posted bail for our last group of youth for the 2025 Youth Holiday Bail Out on Friday December 19, 2025. This year we bailed out 11 youth, including two 15 year old children. We paid $126,920 in ransom to bring them home to their families.

Thank you to our comrades at Believers Bail Out, Philly Muslim Freedom Fund, The Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project, and YEAH Philly!

And a huge thanks you to everyone who donated to make this year's bail out a succcess!