Lavette Publishes Editorial in Broadly
Today, Broadly published an op-ed by CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes. In this article, Lavette shares her own experience with pretrial incarceration and explains why she is organizing [...]
CCBF Joins City Bureau for Public Newsroom
Next week we’ll be working with City Bureau for Public Newsroom #58: Monitoring Cook County’s Central Bond Court! In the fall of 2017, the Coalition to End Money Bond [...]
CCBF Joins NLG for Webinar on Bail Funds
Earlier this month, we participated in a webinar Bail Funds & Community-Based Strategies that was hosted by the National Lawyers Guild and featured Law for Black [...]
People’s Lobby Speak Out About Sheriff Dart’s EM Policies
Terrific intervention here by a leader with The People’s Lobby, one of our partners in The Coalition to End Money Bond: “…Dart assumes that the best way to deal with violence is [...]
CCBF Testifies About Electronic Monitoring at the County Board
Today, CCBF testified at the county board meeting about the the impact of the Sheriff’s unconstitutional policy of reviewing and refusing the respect the release decisions made by bond court [...]
How General Order 18.8A Works
On September 18th last year, General Order 18.8A went into effect in Cook County. The order states that no one should be held in Cook County Jail because they are unable to pay a money bond. Bond [...]
CCBF Pays Bond to Free Roderick
Last month, Sheriff Dart announced that he would be unconstitutionally detaining people who have been ordered released so he could conduct additional arbitrary reviews of their current charges [...]
UPLC & MacArthur Justice Center Condemn Sheriff’s EM Policy
Our friends at Uptown People’s Law Center and The Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center are speaking truth to power in this new op-ed on Dart’s illegal policy of detaining [...]
Bill Introduced To Ensure Ability To Vote While In Jail
Because 94% of people in Cook County Jail are awaiting trial, they are all eligible to vote! Our friends at Chicago Votes have been doing incredible work registering voters in CCJ and this past [...]
George Is Not Guilty!
Last month, Sheriff Tom Dart announced that his office would be reviewing the release decisions being made by Cook County’s Bond Court judges. Since then, Dart has denied release to many [...]