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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 [...]

Yesterday, all criminal charges against Lee Dewey were dropped and their case was resolved as a non-criminal violation of a municipal ordinance!!!! This is a fantastic result, and it is also [...]

Today, Aretha Franklin passed away at the age of 76. In 1970, the queen of soul committed to paying bail to free Angela Davis. She was quoted in the December 1970 issue of Jet Magazine saying [...]

Join the Chicago Community Bond Fund and For the People Artists Collective for an art party ahead of the Rally to #EndMoneyBail. We’re getting together at the Chicago Freedom School on [...]

“I was assigned to be on the band for ninety days and it was worse than prison for me. It kind of made me feel like an animal.” On July 17, a coalition of organizations, including [...]

General Order 18.8A went into effect in September 2017. The Order instructs judges to set money bonds only in amounts that people can afford to pay. Immediately after the Order went into effect, [...]

CCBF’s co-executive director Sharlyn Grace was featured on WBBM Newsradio‘s “Change Makers” this week. Listen in here!

In September 2017, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans issued General Order 18.8A, which instructs judges to set money bonds only in amounts that people can afford to pay. Despite this Order, [...]

Last summer, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans issued General Order 18.8A. The Order went into effect on September 18, 2017, and it states that no person is to be incarcerated in Cook County [...]