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Last week, CCBF posted bond for the 100th time! With your support, we have been able to free 100 people from Cook County Jail or home confinement in the last two years. Nothing CCBF has [...]

We were featured this morning in a great WBEZ story shining a light on how many judges in Cook County routinely deny people a public defender simply because they were able to post bond. Listen here!

Click here to download “Punishment Is Not a “Service”: The Injustice of Pretrial Conditions in Cook County”. As bail reform advances and Cook County relies less on money bond and [...]

“A common argument for pretrial release on monitors is that it removes the pressure to accept a plea bargain simply to get out of jail. However, the case of Chicago’s Lavette Mayes [...]

Come celebrate CCBF’s second birthday and all the progress being made toward ending money bond and pretrial incarceration in Cook County! Since December 2015, CCBF has worked with families [...]

Volunteers with The Coalition to End Money Bond have consistently observed judges failing to effectively implement Chief Judge Evans’ General Order 18.8A over the first month of its [...]

Sign & share this important #NoCopAcademy petition demanding that Rahm Emanuel not spend $95 million on a new police training ground! Fund communities, not cops! Click here to sign [...]

For a third week in a row, bond court judges failed to implement the Chief Judge’s court order designed to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County.

We are so excited to be a co-sponsor of this event organized by Love & Protect!!!!Join us on October 26th for screening of the film “Free CeCe,” which chronicles the story of Cece [...]

We’re excited to invite you to Fight to Win: Shrinking Prisons and Jails / Strengthening Our Communities, an event on organizing against imprisonment and strategies to strengthen our fight for a [...]