Our Impact

Since 2017, National Bail Out has been committed to fighting for a world where carceral systems are unimaginable solutions to social problems.

#FreeBlackMamas 2025

In 2025, National Bail Out and partner organizations bailed out Black mamas and caregivers across the nation in Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Dothan, Alabama; Durham, North Carolina; Houston, Texas; Jackson, Mississippi; Kansas City, Missouri; Los Angeles, California; Memphis, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; New York, New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

We’ve granted 13 Black-led organizations $1,065,000 in bail, $195,000 in short and long-term supportive services, $130,000 in organizational support, and bailed out 68 Black mamas and caregivers.

“But most of those people that are incarcerated in the Harris County Jail is because they have the lack of funding they don't have the means to bail out.”

Latricia, Grassroots Leadership, Houston, Texas 2025

“We don’t believe jails are the place for anyone to be. We have to understand that from the onset of arrest, your whole entire life changes. You have the potential to lose your job, you have the potential to lose your kids, to lose housing…”

Annette, Grassroots Leadership, Houston, Texas 2025

“I see my mother in each and every one of these young ladies. I see my daughters in each and every one of these young ladies.”

Carl, Grassroots Leadership, Houston, Texas 2025

#FreeBlackMamas 2024

In 2024, National Bail Out and partner organizations bailed out Black mamas and caregivers across the nation in Birmingham, Alabama; Little Rock, Arkansas; Oakland, California; Miami, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Prince George's County, Maryland; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; New York City, New York; Bridgeton, North Carolina; Durham, North Carolina; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Houston, Texas, and Lubbock, Texas.

We’ve granted 18 Black-led organizations $1,966,900 in bail, $475,000 in short and long-term supportive services, $288,000 in organizational support, and bailed out 151 Black mamas and caregivers.

“What you see in Arkansas is a system where people are penalized for being in poverty.”

Osyrus, Little Rock Freedom Fund, Arkansas, 2024

“We’re actually able to have the money to get them home to their children, to their families, and then on top of that, you’re disrupting the system because they want them to stay there. They want to make money off of them every day.”

Dawn, Little Rock Freedom Fund, Arkansas, 2024

“I’m guilty until proven innocent when I’m supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.”

Tamyha, Bailed Out Mama, 2024

“Missouri has one of the harshest abortion bans in the country. It was the first state to roll back all protections, even in the case of rape and incest.”

Justice, Reale Justice Network, Missouri, 2024

“Like I literally lost. Everything within 24 hours. My jobs, apartment, car, my kids, everything.”

Avery, Reale Justice Network, Missouri, 2024

“Mass incarceration is pretty much another word for enslavement.”

Sandra, Reale Justice Network, Missouri, 2024

#FreeBlackMamas 2023

In 2023, National Bail Out and partner organizations bailed out Black mamas and caregivers nationwide in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas.

We’ve granted 13 Black-led organizations $2,899,820 in bail, $453,000 in organizational support, $780,000 in short and long-term supportive services, and bailed out 156 Black mamas and caregivers.