App called Appolition uses spare change to help bail people out jail
iWoke: Bail Bonds App “Appolition” Uses Spare Change To Help Free Black People
Image via Getty
New App Gathers Change For Justice
This is DOPE!
We came across an article on WIRED that highlighted an app that we consider the perfect use social justice and technology.
A new appropriately-titled app “Appolition” rounds users’ purchases up to the next dollar and tosses the spare change into an account controlled by National Bail Out. The idea began as a tweet.
https://twitter.com/fakerapper/status/889197985678073856
NBO is a grassroots org that helps free those who cannot afford the exorbitant amounts that judges hand down to accused criminals. As we are all well aware, the current bail system favors those with means, those without, are left to rot until their trial date. Often times those left to rot have significantly more melanin in their skin than those who get to sleep in their own beds after being arrested with a bag of weed.
Troy Wilson, the co-founder of the company who developed the change-gathering algorithm was a victim of the bail system as he was arrested and didn’t have $200 for bond.
“I was lucky to have someone to bail me out,” Wilson says. “But what about people who don’t have any safety net?”
Well, now they have Appolition. Hopefully.
- Congrats, Big Mama! Latto Reveals She Gave Birth To Her 1st Child, Confirms The Baby Blessing Is 21 Savage’s Seed
- Copacetic Co-Parents Phaedra Parks & Apollo Nida Gush Over Son’s State Championship Win—’We Are So Proud Of Our Prince Ayden’
- Stefon Diggs & Cayy Benji Throw Daughter Peyton 1st Birthday Bash, Social Media Side-Eyes His Stiff Stance At Circus-Themed Toddler Party
