Uncategorized – Asheville Community Bail Fund https://avlbail.blackblogs.org Grassroots project to get people out of jail. Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:04:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 24 for 2024 https://avlbail.blackblogs.org/2024/01/15/24-for-2024/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:04:54 +0000 https://avlbail.blackblogs.org/?p=19 Continue reading 24 for 2024 →]]> Noise demonstrations in front of the jail are a New Years Eve tradition. For the past few years, the bail fund has celebrated the new year by trying to bail a bunch of people out. While spending increasingly long amounts of time waiting at the jail, we’ve witnessed a lot of people being released from the jail at odd hours, in bad weather, and with no support.

So, this year we wanted to trying something different: We wanted to try and have people stationed at the jail for 24 hours on January 1st to help out folks who are being released.


We didn’t end up with full 24 hour coverage (a few early-morning shifts were missing), but we did have 18 hours of the day covered, and did end up helping out several people!

We left a booklet with blank pages for each hour for the jail support crew to write their thoughts in while they waited at the jail. We scanned the booklet and you can read it here:

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