ATLANTA (AP) — When she was behind bars in Georgia, Nia Thomas would use toothpaste to stick handwritten flyers to the wall and spread the word about community bail funds that could pay inmates' bonds, no strings attached.
'I was posting the phone numbers in everybody's rooms, everybody's dorms, every jail I went to,' Thomas said.
But wide-scale initiatives like the one that paid $50,000 for her pre…