When Dorothy Hinton-Adams was arrested for allegedly shoplifting a can of peanuts in May, she didn’t have the money to pay for her bail, which a judge set at $500.
No bail bond company would help her, so Hinton-Adams, 71, was forced to stay in Fulton County Jail in Atlanta until her court date. “After the 15th day, I got kind of panicky,” Hinton-Adams said. “So I asked around how I could find out if I had a court date? There was a lady in there who wrote down my name and booking number.”
That night, a stranger appeared and paid the $500 to bail out Hinton-Adams.
[For more on this story by Amy Roe, go to http://www.yesmagazine.org/iss...theyre-poor-20171127]
Photo: In Atlanta, Black Mamas Bail-Out freed Dorothy Hinton-Adams from jail using community bail funds. Members and partners of Southerners on New Ground, a grassroots regional queer liberation organization, helped coordinate the campaign.
Left to right, seated: Dorothy Hinton-Adams, Amina Abdul-Jalil. Left to right, standing: Akiva Freidlin, Taylor Money-Worthy, Angelica Wheelis, Alyssa Green.
YES! Photos by Lyndon Eugene.
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