[3] It was founded by David Feige, a producer, writer, and law professor, and Robin Steinberg, the founder and chief executive of The Bronx Defenders.
It closed in 2009 after Judge Ralph Fabrizio ruled that it was an uninsured bail-bond business.
[5] Its co-founders, along with state senator Gustavo Rivera and then-assemblymen Phil Boyle, drafted a set of amendments allowing for a charitable exemption to the bail and insurance laws.
[6] The bill, sponsored by Senator Rivera, passed unanimously through both chambers of the state legislature in 2011.
[7] The Bronx Freedom Fund reopened its doors and began to post bail, freeing hundreds of people between 2013 and 2015.