codefordc/cashbailapp

CashBailSupport

Many people are being held in jail pretrial, meaning they have not yet been convicted of a crime and are legally presumed innocent.  This is because our country largely has a system of money bail,  in which the constitutional principle of “innocent until proven guilty” only really applies to the well off. With money bail, a defendant is required to pay a certain amount of money as a guarantee they will attend future court hearings.  When they are unable to come up with the money, they can be incarcerated until his case is resolved or dismissed in court.  We created an app that helps connect these individuals with a community, who wants to help pay the cash bail, so a presumed innocent or poor person doesn’t stay in jail while awaiting trail (or worse, forced to plead guilty) because of lack of funds.

This software is meant to be used with a local non-profit on the ground who work with those who are in need of funds. These non-profits would run the software, be responsible for vetting the recipients of the funds, and showcasing those in need. It is hoped that advocates who come across this software would reach out to the non-profits via this platform for assistance for those needing assistance.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/incomejails.html

Preview

Getting Started

Run in IDE and open a web browser to your default localhost port (generally this is localhost:8080)

Built With

• Java 8 - Back end Language
• Spring Boot - Framework
• IntelliJ - IDE used
• Maven - Dependency Management
• Thymeleaf - Template Engine
• BootStrap4 - Website Creation

Contributors

• Kristyn Ferber - kferbs
• Bahar - Bahar Asefi
• Rick Todman - Eric Todman
• Wade Taylor - Wade Taylor
• Shodie Lyon - Shodie Lyon
• David Mudrauskas - David Mudrauskas

Acknowledgments

• NYC Coders BLM Hackathon for creating the milieu for this to happen
• All the amazing teams at the Black Lives Matter Hackathon who drove us to do better!
• Black Lives Matter!

cashbailapp's Issues

Anonymous User

Navbar displays an "anonymous" when no user is logged into website. This causes the permissions to look as if someone is always logged in, hence the logout link is displayed, yet, at the same time, it is also like no one is logged in because the registration page is also displayed.