A new court rule that went into effect in February makes it easier for pretrial defendants to maintain work and childcare duties while their cases proceed through the court. Northwest Community Bail Fund joined dozens of attorneys and community partners in supporting...

Every state has struggled to curb community spread of the coronavirus over the course of the past year. Across the United States, prisons and jails have been hit particularly hard by the largest outbreaks of the virus due to their dense populations. These spaces were...

The criminal punishment system is complex. When you think about how long one may attend school to become a lawyer or judge, you can understand why the average citizen may not know much at all about how courts work on a local level, let alone a national level. The...

Back in October, Northwest Community Bail Fund, along with 350 Seattle, King County Equity Now, Decriminalize Seattle, Puget Sound Sage, Got Green, Climate Justice for Black Lives, Mazaska Talks and many others signed on to a letter urging Mayor Durkan and the City...