Three Years Since the Death of Kalief Browder
Yesterday marked three years since the death of Kalief Browder. Beginning at age 16, Kalief spent more than one thousand days incarcerated pretrial at New York City’s Riker’s jail. In [...]
Lavette & Believer’s Bail Out Featured on Al Jazeera’s “The Stream”
Earlier this week, CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes was featured along with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer of Sapelo Square: An Online Resource on Black Muslims in the U.S., one of our partners in [...]
CCBF Joins International Whores Day Direct Action! Chicago
Join us at noon today at the Daley Center as we stand in solidarity with sex workers, survivors of violence, and criminalized workers everywhere! We stand opposed to SESTA & FOSTA, which make [...]
RIP Richard Smith
This is a sobering reminder that the stakes of ending money bond and pretrial incarceration are literally life and death. In 2017, at least 22 people died while incarcerated in Cook County Jail. [...]