JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty ImagesRev. Jesse Jackson helped people serving time at Cook County Jail in Chicago regain their freedom on Christmas Day.
The leader of the Rainbow/PUSH social justice organization posted bail for several inmates so they could spend the holidays with their families, according to ABC Chicago affiliate WLS-TV.
“It’s a blessing because would’ve been his first Christmas locked up ever,” said Eileen Thomas Kinzer, who waited for her son, Aaron Kinzer, just beyond the gate Wednesday. He’d been in jail since December 14.
“It’s a good feeling, brings warmness to my heart,” Eileen Kinzer said.
Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition led dozens of inmates in
