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In just one week, the number of people at Cook County Jail who have tested positive for COVID-19 has gone from two to 101, with more than 90 people awaiting test results. At the current rate of [...]

Statement from Chicago Community Bond Fund and Chicago Appleseed For the last two weeks, over 100 advocacy, community, legal organizations, and unions have called on Cook County to release people [...]

In three days, the number of people incarcerated at Cook County Jail with COVID-19 went from 1 to 17. As of today, 50 incarcerated people have been tested and 31 are still waiting for their test [...]

Over 10 days ago, Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) and nearly 100 advocacy, community, and legal organizations and unions began calling for the mass release of people from Cook County Jail to [...]

For over a week, we have been clear: COVID-19 would inevitably enter Cook County Jail and put thousands of lives at risk. Yesterday we learned that a guard who had been working in the Cermak [...]

Faith leaders are gathering outside Cook County Jail to pray for the health and release of the 5,500 people incarcerated inside the jail. This prayer vigil comes on the heels of yesterday’s [...]

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office has revealed that a deputy who works in the jail has tested positive for COVID-19. It is extra distressing that the deputy had been working in Cermak [...]

On the afternoon of Friday, March 20, 2020, Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli filed an emergency petition calling for the mass release of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail to [...]

CALL THE COOK COUNTY STATE’S ATTORNEY & CHIEF JUDGE AND DEMAND THEY DECARCERATE IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC HEALTH! We are asking residents of Cook County to call the Chief Judge and the [...]

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office has begun quarantining all new detainees for 12 to 14 days. These measures are in inadequate and only further punish individuals whose health is being put [...]