Portland Freedom Fund began in the wake of the racial justice protests in the summer of 2020. Organizers focused on helping low-income, BIPOC defendants post bail. They also want to bring attention to the racial inequities embedded in the cash bail system more broadly. The group came under fire recently after a defendant who they’d helped allegedly killed the mother of his children after being released. Terrence Hayes is on the board of the Portland Freedom Fund. He says the group will stay focused on its mission of helping people from BIPOC communities who are accused of crimes to get back to their families. The family of the woman killed is foremost in Hayes’ mind, and he says the group will be working more closely with the attorneys involved in defendants’ cases. Hayes joins us to talk more about the Portland Freedom Fund and about his own activism working for racial equity in the criminal justice system.