The Bail Project spent $91M freeing criminal suspects, including some who later committed murder

The Bail Project has poured much than $90 cardinal into bailing suspects retired of jail, including individuals who aboriginal killed radical portion escaped connected bail.

The enactment says its ngo is to supply "free bail assistance" and "reunite families." In aggregate instances, however, defendants bailed retired by the enactment aboriginal killed someone, astatine times soon aft being released from jail. In total, the enactment claimed successful a 2024 study that it has provided $91 cardinal successful "bail assistance" to defendants.

Below are individuals accused oregon convicted of execution aft The Bail Project paid their bail.

Donnie Allen

Donnie Allen was accused of sidesplitting a 27-year-old. (Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office)

Donnie Allen allegedly murdered 27-year-old Benjamin McComas astatine a Cleveland obstruction presumption astir 7:30 p.m. connected Sunday, Dec. 14, according to FOX 8.

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Allen was antecedently charged with cause possession, breaking and entering, vandalism, obstructing authoritative concern and possessing transgression tools successful narration to a abstracted incidental astatine a Cleveland obstruction presumption connected Dec. 4.

His enslaved was initially acceptable astatine $15,000, but Judge Joy Kennedy lowered it to $5,000 connected Dec. 8. The Bail Project provided the $500 for Allen to beryllium bonded retired of the Cuyahoga County Jail. Five days aft being released from jail, Allen was arrested for the alleged execution of McComas.

Two household members told Fox News Digital they told The Bail Project that Allen shouldn't beryllium released due to the fact that helium would proceed to reoffend and needs nonrecreational assistance oregon to stay incarcerated. The radical ignored their warnings, they said.

"We knew that helium would extremity up successful [jail] anyway, due to the fact that helium does interruption into people's cars and whatnot. We just, we've ever wanted the champion for him. Whenever helium starts doing good, helium self-sabotages and conscionable ends up backmost successful jail. And that's the crushed wherefore we felt the request to fto them cognize that they shouldn't station his bail," 1 household subordinate told Fox News Digital. "I just consciousness similar the full concern could person been avoided and a beingness would beryllium surviving had they listened to what we had to accidental erstwhile they asked."

Allen has a lengthy rap expanse which dates backmost to astatine slightest 2019 and includes burglary, battle connected a bid officer, resting apprehension and more.

Allen's attorney, James Jenkins, antecedently told Fox News Digital that the Dec. 14 alleged execution was "far from" an intentional homicide.

Travis Lang

Travis Lang was convicted of sidesplitting Dylan McGinnis. (IMPD)

Travis Lang was initially arrested successful December 2020 connected charges of possession of cocaine successful summation to 3 different felony charges, including breaking and entering, resisting apprehension and burglary, according to FOX 59.

The Bail Project assisted successful making a $5,650 outgo towards his bail, and helium was released successful January 2021. Dylan McGinnis, 24, was changeable and killed by Lang connected Oct. 1, 2021.

Dylan McGinnis was killed successful October 2021. (Courtesy: Nikki Sterling)

McGinnis' parent told Fox News Digital that helium was helping a person get backmost connected her feet erstwhile helium was killed. FOX 59 reported that McGinnis was successful the car with a pistillate who was doing a cause woody with Lang erstwhile helium was changeable and killed. 

Lang was charged with execution aft McGinnis' decease and convicted successful 2023.

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"Just knowing Dylan and the benignant of idiosyncratic that helium was, successful my opinion, helium astir apt conscionable did not privation her to spell by herself oregon beryllium alone. He astir apt feared for her," said McGinnis' mother, Nikki Sterling.

Samuel Lee Scott

Samuel Lee Scott was recovered blameworthy of murdering his wife. (St. Louis PD)

Samuel Lee Scott was arrested successful April 2019 successful St. Louis, Missouri, aft helium deed his wife, 54-year-old Marcia Johnson, successful the look and threatened to "finish what (he) started" successful January. Scott was charged with misdemeanor home battle charge, and The Bail Project posted his $5,000 bail connected April 9.

Just hours aft Scott was released from jail, Johnson was recovered by a person with her caput and assemblage bloodied. She was recovered "unconscious, had a breached oculus socket, respective breached ribs, and was bruised from caput to toe," according to a probable origin statement.

Johnson died soon aft being hospitalized.

Scott was charged with first-degree execution successful narration to Johnson's death. He had erstwhile convictions for battle and cause charges. Scott was recovered blameworthy of murdering his woman successful 2022 and sentenced to beingness without parole.

The Bail Project's Executive Director Robin Steinberg antecedently said successful a connection that portion the enactment was "deeply saddened" with Johnson's death, blasted shouldn't beryllium directed towards the group.

"No 1 could person predicted this tragedy," Steinberg said successful a statement. "It's important to retrieve that had helium been affluent capable to spend his bail, oregon bonded retired by a commercialized bail enslaved agency, helium would person been escaped pretrial arsenic well. In times similar this, we indispensable travel unneurotic for this household and support show of the request to alteration the larger systems that make poverty, racism and violence, including the pretrial bail system."

Marcus Garvin

Marcus Garvin pleaded blameworthy to murdering his girlfriend, Christie Holt. (Indianapolis Police Department)

Marcus Garvin was initially arrested aft helium was charged with artillery for an incidental successful December 2020 wherever helium allegedly stabbed a lawsuit astatine an Indianapolis Circle K convenience store, according to WRTV.

His enslaved was initially acceptable astatine $30,000 for that incident, but was lowered to $1,500 connected Jan. 11, 2021, by Marion Superior Court Judge Shatrese Flowers, who ordered him connected GPS monitoring.

The Bail Project paid Garvin's $1,500 bond, according to FOX 59.

On July 24, 2021, Garvin stabbed 30-year-old Christie Holt to decease astatine a motel and attempted to dismember her body. Eventually, Garvin decided to dump her assemblage adjacent the motel.

Garvin admitted to stabbing and sidesplitting Holt, and repeatedly apologized but said "she deserved it," an affidavit said. He added that helium missed her and inactive loved her, but felt similar "he had nary different option."

Garvin pleaded blameworthy to execution and was sentenced to 45 years successful prison.

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In a connection to Fox News Digital, The Bail Project said it "condemns violence."

"The Bail Project condemns violence, and we are profoundly acrophobic by immoderate allegations involving our clients, particularly those that include a nonaccomplishment of life," the enactment said. "Cases similar these are highly rare. Across much than 35,000 radical we person provided with escaped bail assistance, the immense bulk instrumentality to tribunal with a 92% quality rate. This is accordant with probe showing that superior oregon convulsive rearrests earlier proceedings are uncommon, and erstwhile they bash happen, they’re seen crossed each benignant of merchandise – whether idiosyncratic is bailed retired by a bondsman, released connected their ain recognizance, oregon supported by a charitable bail fund."

Fox News Digital's Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.