Salih Israil ’09 Wants Philly Residents to Understand the Bail System in Order to Change It 

Salih Israil ’09 is an alumnus of the Bard Prison Initiative and the new executive director of the Philadelphia Bail Fund. Under Israil’s leadership, the Fund is concentrating on reporting hard data to educate Philadelphia residents about what the bail and pre-trial detention system does and doesn’t do. The Fund’s new online, interactive portal aims to highlight the patterns that exist in the city’s cash bail system, furthering public knowledge of how bail works—and how it disproportionately affects underserved communities.

Post Date: 08-16-2022