Bail Requests
Eligibility Criteria
If your loved one meets these eligibility requirements, we invite you to complete the form below. Please allow ten days for a response and please only submit one request. PCBF typically posts bail every other week and our ability to post depends on the availability of funds. It could take three weeks or more for bail to be posted.
If you are unable to submit a request online, you can call our Bail Request Hotline at (267) 225-6047 and leave a message. Please, follow the directions given. Incomplete messages will not receive a response. Please do not call the hotline if you fill out this request form.
What is a Bail Fund?
We are not a bail bond company. We are a not for profit entity formed by community members who raise money to post bail for our neighbors who cannot afford to post bail. We do not charge any fees or expect repayment. We do ask those for whom we post bail to consent to have the bail money be returned by the court to PCBF at the conclusion of their case so that we can recycle that money to help another person. Unfortunately, we do not have the capacity or the funds to help everyone seeking our help.
What to Expect
Once we receive your request for bail help, we locate your loved one in the Incarcerated Person Locator and look up their docket(s). We then confirm that the person to be bailed out meets our basic eligibility requirements. If those criteria are met, we will reach out to the person who submitted the request to do a short Support Interview. We will then visit the incarcerated person in jail to do a short interview, assess their support needs if bailed out, and to get their consent to post their bail. If we can post their bail, we will inform the person who made the request or a support person identified by the person to be bailed out.
We post bail every other week. The number of bails we can post each month is limited by several factors including our capacity to provide support and how much bail funds we have available.
We prioritize people with bails under $1000 to post, those who are pregnant or have severe medical emergencies, children, people over 65, criminalized survivors of domestic abuse, and other people with special circumstances.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be incarcerated in Philadelphia County. If your loved one is incarcerated in another county, email [email protected] for assistance.
- We are unable to post bail for people with active Philadelphia detainers. Those with Nebbia Orders or house arrest conditions are still eligible to apply.
- We are able to consider bails of $15,000 to post and below. In emergency situations, we will consider posting up to $25,000. Please note that bail decisions are made subject to our ability to pay.
If your loved one meets these eligibility requirements, we invite you to complete the form below. Please allow ten days for a response and please only submit one request. PCBF typically posts bail every other week and our ability to post depends on the availability of funds. It could take three weeks or more for bail to be posted.
If you are unable to submit a request online, you can call our Bail Request Hotline at (267) 225-6047 and leave a message. Please, follow the directions given. Incomplete messages will not receive a response. Please do not call the hotline if you fill out this request form.
What is a Bail Fund?
We are not a bail bond company. We are a not for profit entity formed by community members who raise money to post bail for our neighbors who cannot afford to post bail. We do not charge any fees or expect repayment. We do ask those for whom we post bail to consent to have the bail money be returned by the court to PCBF at the conclusion of their case so that we can recycle that money to help another person. Unfortunately, we do not have the capacity or the funds to help everyone seeking our help.
What to Expect
Once we receive your request for bail help, we locate your loved one in the Incarcerated Person Locator and look up their docket(s). We then confirm that the person to be bailed out meets our basic eligibility requirements. If those criteria are met, we will reach out to the person who submitted the request to do a short Support Interview. We will then visit the incarcerated person in jail to do a short interview, assess their support needs if bailed out, and to get their consent to post their bail. If we can post their bail, we will inform the person who made the request or a support person identified by the person to be bailed out.
We post bail every other week. The number of bails we can post each month is limited by several factors including our capacity to provide support and how much bail funds we have available.
We prioritize people with bails under $1000 to post, those who are pregnant or have severe medical emergencies, children, people over 65, criminalized survivors of domestic abuse, and other people with special circumstances.