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CCBF is proud to unveil a new animated film documenting the fight to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County. More than 2,700 legally innocent people are incarcerated in Cook County jail simply [...]

We must #EndMoneyBail, but we need to ensure all reforms also move us closer to ending pretrial incarceration. California’s SB10 replaces money bail with racist risk assessment tools [...]

47 years ago today over 1,000 prisoners took control of the Attica Correctional Facility, 47 years later prisoners across the US are participating in one of the largest prison strikes in US [...]

Yvette’s son, Tim, has been on electronic monitoring at her apartment in South Shore for almost an entire year. CCBF worked with Yvette to pay Tim’s $6,500 bond (a $65,000 D-Bond) and secure his [...]

70 years ago today, #FredHampton was born. Fred grew up in Maywood and went on to become chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and deputy chairman of the national [...]

Four years ago today, 17-year-old DeSean Pittman was shot and killed by Chicago Police. A few days after DeSean’s death, his family gathered for a vigil to uplift his memory. Chicago Police came [...]

HUGE VICTORY TODAY in the fight to #EndMoneyBail as a federal judge in New Orleans rules that money bail in unconstitutional! Congrats to our friends at Civil Rights Corps & [...]

Our thoughts are with the families of Debora Ann Lyons and Eldon Lee Jackson. Both Debora and Eldon took their lives within three weeks of each other while incarcerated pretrial in Harris County [...]

Please join our friend Rachel Wallis at this important event this Saturday, where you can help create quilts designed by women in Cook County Jail. The Inheritance Quilt is a collaboration with [...]

Today marks the beginning of the 2018 prison strike. Incarcerated people across the United States will be striking to demand better living conditions, an immediate end to prison slavery, greater [...]