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Causes: Crime & Law, Legal Services
Mission: To assist indigent criminal defendants charged with low-level crimes avoid the experience, complications and related hardships of pretrial detention caused by their inability to afford bail. The liberty fund intends to carry out its purposes by operating a charitable bail fund that will provide bail support to low-level offenders with bail amounts set at $2,000 or less.
Programs: Liberty fund, inc. 's purpose is to be a citywide charitable bail fund dedicated to reducing the number of new yorkers subjected to pretrial detention at rikers island simply because they are unable to post bail.