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“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 [...]

Last fall, CCBF and our partners in the Coalition to End Money Bond organized more than 70 volunteers to monitor the implementation of General Order 18.8A in Cook County’s central bond court. The [...]

Read this important Letter to the Editor about Sheriff Dart’s unfounded fearmongering about public safety, electronic monitoring, & the fight to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County by scholar, [...]

Today, Sheriff Tom Dart attempted to raise alarm bells about the successes of bail reform in Cook County. Both major Chicago newspapers quote Dart and his office regarding the increased number of [...]

Our friends at Chicago Votes have been working hard registering people to vote at Cook County Jail! Because more than 90% of all people in CCJ are there pretrial, they are all eligible [...]

Last year, the Chief Judge of Cook County issued General Order 18.8A, which instructs judges to stop issuing money bonds in amounts that people cannot afford. Since then, the number of people [...]

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and Civil Rights Corps recently won an important victory that impacts everyone who is currently incarcerated pretrial in California, and takes the [...]

South Side Weekly takes an in-depth look at the history of bail reform. The article features CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes and CCBF co-founder Sharlyn Grace. You can read it here!

Over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes joined Jason Hernandez and Johnny Perez for the premier of a series of animated shorts documenting their stories. The [...]