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We are happy to have been featured on this week’s The Seminary Co-op Bookstores Open Stacks Podcast alongside authors Susan Burton and Michaela Soyer! You should listen to the whole thing [...]

We just posted $10k to free the person arrested yesterday at #SlutwalkChi. We are proud to continue standing with Chicago’s social justice movements!

After four months of incarceration and another four months on house arrest, a jury found George “not guilty” on July 26th in his aggravated unlawful use of a weapon case. CCBF is thrilled that [...]

CCBF member Lavette Mayes is interviewed in this new Mic.com article about the problems with money bail and how bail funds are fighting back against it: “[B]ecause she didn’t have the means [...]

CCBF co-founder Matt McLoughlin was on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles / 98.7 FM Santa Barbara “This is Happening” with Jerry Quickley earlier this week talking about our work and [...]

CCBF co-founder Sharlyn Grace analyzes what the recent court rule change in Cook County means, and why it matters for the entire country in this new Truthout Op-Ed. “As of July 17, 2017, [...]

Help us monitor the courts to ensure that the proposed money bond reforms are enacted as promised! The Coalition to End Money Bond is organizing a Community Courtwatching Initiative during the [...]

We’re featured in this news story talking about how many people could be affected by Chief Judge Evans’s new order limiting money bonds to amounts that people can pay. More than 60% [...]

Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans has announced a new rule for judges making bond decisions in Cook County that should dramatically decrease the use of money bond and as a result, pretrial [...]

Last night, CCBF posted bond for the 75th person we’ve freed from Cook County Jail or house arrest with electronic monitoring. CCBF remains committed to fighting alongside criminalized [...]