Envision Freedom Fund
Envision Freedom Fund works in collaboration with impacted communities to dismantle the intertwined criminal legal and immigration systems that feed off each other to target and incarcerate people from low-income communities of color. With freedom as our guiding principle, we pay bonds to free people from immigration detention, support individuals as they land on their feet, and build the organizing power needed to end immigration detention and pretrial incarceration in New York State.
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund secures the freedom of New Yorkers who would otherwise be detained pretrial due to their poverty alone. We are committed to challenging the criminalization of race, poverty and immigration status, the practice of putting a price on fundamental rights, and the persistent myth that bail is a necessary element of the justice system.
Leveraging our groundbreaking work as a charitable bail fund, BCBF joined with other community-based organizations, immigration advocates and legal services providers to form the New York Immigrant Freedom Fund program (NYIFF). Operated by BCBF, the NYIFF program secures the freedom of New Yorkers held in ICE detention who cannot afford to pay bond.
