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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Part three of South Side Weekly’s in-depth look at the movement to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County. This article focuses on the work of the Coalition to End Money Bond, of which CCBF is a [...]

New article from South Side Weekly takes an in-depth look at CCBF’s origin story and the Coalition to End Money Bond. This week the Coalition to End Money Bond released “Monitoring [...]

“Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is running into a backlash from the Cook County public defender and other legal advocates of people who are remaining in jail as his office scrutinizes if they [...]

Attorneys for people held in Cook County Jail even after their bonds were paid are challenging the Sheriff’s policy in federal court and also seeking to hold Dart in contempt in state court for [...]