✨Yet ANOTHER data-driven report that bail reform works and communities are safer when they are freer.
👀Read the study: datacollaborativeforjustice.org/work/bail-reform/testing-the-long-term-impact-of-bail-reform-across-new-york-state-a-quasi-experimental-evaluation/
Success in ending cash bond in Illinois threatens a key deception by Trump: that more people in cages makes us safe.
👀Read CFF Policy Director Rebecca Wallace’s Op Ed: denverpost.com/2025/09/05/trump-bail-bond-pretrial-fairness/
Psssst...We been telling y'all cash bail doesn't keep us safe.
💡So Denver Police want to educate rather than punish officers for lower level misconduct to help those officers really understand their mistakes and avoid them in the future?
IMAGINE A WORLD where we offerred the same grace, education and opportunities to community members.
CFF Policy Director @rebeccawallace.bsky.social criticizes Johnston's advocacy for Gov. Polis to veto HB25-1147, Municipal Court Fairness.
Read the Letter: denverpost.com/2025/06/03/johnston-municipal-court-reform-house-bill-1147-veto/
At least with these vetoes, Polis is allowing people to see him clearly - a corporatists who puts the interests of millionaires like himself over regular folks. He's putting the nail in his own coffin of national ambitions, and I wonder if any of his advisers are telling him the truth about that.
💥We’re mad, but we’re not done fighting for fairness for our unhoused neighbors.
Read Colorado Freedom Fund’s statement on Gov. Polis’ veto of HB25-1147: coloradofreedomfund.org/hb1147-veto.
Then, let’s get work.
In today’s @coloradosun.com, Sens. @judyamabileco.bsky.social & Mike Weissman lay out why passing HB25-1147 is so urgent: Colorado’s poorest neighbors are facing 30x longer jail sentences—just for landing in the wrong courtroom.
Read the op-ed here: coloradosun.com/2025/03/26/o...
BREAKING: Louisianans just rejected a ballot measure that would have paved the way for more children to be prosecuted as adults.
It lost by roughly 30%.
Here’s how a supporter had justified it: “Some of these kids are already lost when they’re two years old.” Context: boltsmag.org/louisiana-am...
The Aurora Sentinel sees through Aurora’s “tough on crime” nonsense.
Editor Dave Perry calls out city leaders for pushing failed policies that do more harm than good. Instead of making communities safer, they’re exacerbating the problem.
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/perr...
People are getting wildly different—and often extreme—sentences in Colorado, just based on where they’re arrested.
HB25-1147 passed the House on March 7 and heads to the Senate next week thanks, in large part, to @javiermabrey.bsky.social's sponsorship & advocacy. 1/
Tonight, we're co-hosting a listening session for people who’ve been jailed in a Colorado municipal court just for trying to survive.
Follow us for a recap tomorrow.
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CFF's @rebeccawallace.bsky.social testified this week on "pretrial competency purgatory" in cash bond. Judges jail ppl found incompetent for months over small bonds. SB25-041 aimed to fix this, but pretrial fairness provisions were cut.
Read more here (paywall): www.denverpost.com/2023/12/13/c...
Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.
CFF Policy Director Rebecca Wallace @rebeccawallace.bsky.social shared this data at @pewtrusts.org's D.C. court reminder convening.
📲 One text at a time, we’re helping folks stay free. 2/2
CFF's @rebeccawallace.bsky.social helped defeat SB25-044 in committee this week, 4-3! The bill sought harsher penalties for fentanyl possession, targeting people with substance use disorder. Grateful to fight with experts and call for care, not criminalization, for our neighbors who use drugs. 🟫✊🏽
The Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee is currently hearing public testimony on SB25-044, which would make possession of any amount of synthetic opioids (ex. fentanyl) a felony.
CCJRC is urging a NO vote.
🔊https://leg.colorado.gov/committee/audio/2747551
I call them fascists, but I don't find the debate over that term terribly constructive. The word fascism chills many of us to the bone, but it doesn't function that way in the world at large. We need to help people understand how what's happening relates to their lives and futures.
Look don't get me wrong Kanye's comments are disturbing to me as a Jew but there are entire groups of (white) people upset at him who think that Elon Musk, sieg heiling Nazi billionaire, is Cool and Good and those people disturb me a hell of a lot more.
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
State-commissioned study finds felonizing possession of 1+ gram fentanyl accomplished none of its goals:
❌Did not reduce overdose deaths.
❌Did not get more people into treatment.
The war on drugs continues to fail at every turn.
Jail is not housing. CO's municipal courts hand out harsh sentences for poverty offenses without legal counsel or transparency. HB25-1147 curbs extreme sentencing, strengthens access to lawyers, and boosts transparency.
Join the fight:
🔹 [EN] bit.ly/HB1147Coalition
🔹 [ES] bit.ly/LaHB1147Coalicion
Come on Bluesky! CO municipal courts are sentencing our unhoused neighbors to months and sometimes a year in jail for offenses of poverty and survival. HB25-1147 takes aim at some of the most extreme and carceral municipal court practices.
Join the Coalition! bit.ly/HB1147Coalition
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
Statement of solidarity from Colorado Jewish Legislative Caucus, Black Democratic Legislative Caucus of Colorado, the Colorado Democratic Latino Caucus, the Democratic Womens Caucus of Colorado, the Colorado Legislative LBGTQ+ Caucus, and the Menasa Muslim Joint Legislative Caucus. #copolitics
Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
⚠️Listening now to Denver City Attorney vigorously fight to deny indigent defense counsel on the day of trial, after the Municipal Public Defender has fully prepared for trial. Turns out folks charged in Denver Municipal Court are subject to the same kinds of harms we see in other parts of CO.
