Bail Project

Bail Project founder Robin Steinberg and CEO David Gaspar appeared at the City Club of Cleveland Wednesday. They argued their project proves cash bail is unnecessary.

Updated 7:15 p.m., 6/25/2020 Cleveland city prosecutors are dropping charges against a Bail Project staffer arrested for breaking Downtown curfew despite living and working there.

Local officials trying to bring down the population of the long-overcrowded Cuyahoga County Jail have had help in the last few months from the Bail Project, a nonprofit that posts bonds for defendants who can’t afford them. The project, which relies on donations and operates in more than a dozen court systems across the country, set up a two-person shop in Cleveland in July 2019. Since then, the project has paid the bail of 175 defendants, according to the group’s national spokesman.