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As of this month, Chicago Community Bond Fund has paid over $5 million to free more than 750 people in seven years!  Just since 2020, CCBF has paid $3.5 million of that total for 540 people [...]

Community and friends, we are looking for sponsors to help CCBF achieve our goals for the annual event next month. You can contribute funds or an in-kind donation for a raffle prize. We are so [...]

We know many of you have seen the incredibly harmful, anti-Black, racist, and classist lies from paper mailers and social media about the Pretrial Fairness Act. We want to ensure that you have [...]

CCBF wants to remain transparent and accountable to the community that makes our work possible. Therefore, we will continue to provide public updates on the operations of our Revolving Fund. Our [...]

On August 13th, Deon Lee died at Cook County Jail, the second person known to have died in the jail this month. Deon was 30 years old.  According to the Chicago Sun Times, the exact cause of [...]

Just one year ago, our community lost Malik Alim.  Malik embodied all it is to be an organizer—he was passionate about the work and about people and what we could accomplish when we [...]

We are devastated to learn of the death of Alteriq Pleasant, 27, who died on August 2nd while in custody at Cook County Jail. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that according to the sheriff’s [...]

Over the past few months, several families have been scammed out of thousands of dollars in desperate attempts to free their loved ones incarcerated in Cook County Jail. In some cases, people who [...]

On July 6, 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court announced a 4-3 ruling related to the state’s affirmative defense law. This ruling means Chrystul Kizer and her legal team will have the opportunity [...]