Why Money Bond Harms Survivors
As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, CCBF co-hosted a virtual event alongside Women’s Justice Institute and Ascend Justice to hear from survivors who are currently [...]
Commemorating 7 years of Chicago Community Bond Fund
November 21, 2022 marks the 7th anniversary of Chicago Community Bond Fund’s public launch, and we’ve used this occasion to reflect on all the work our community has done. In these past [...]
Debunking Fake News about the Pretrial Fairness Act
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’s 2021 Overview
This November, CCBF will celebrate the seventh anniversary of our launch. In just seven years, we have helped win policy changes that dramatically reduced the number of people incarcerated in [...]
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Shannon’s Experience with Pretrial Jailing and Electronic Monitoring in Cook County
Growing up on Chicago’s Southside, Shannon always had dreams of being a recording artist. While working a day job as a forklift driver, Shannon spent his free time writing music and performing at [...]
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE PASSES BILL ENDING MONEY BOND
CCBF is thrilled to announce that the Pretrial Fairness Act, our landmark legislation developed with our partners at the Coalition to End Money Bond and the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, [...]
More Than 200 People Incarcerated in Cook County Jail Test Positive for COVID-19
More than 200 people incarcerated in Cook County Jail are currently infected with COVID-19. The number of people incarcerated in the jail who have tested positive for the virus has more than [...]
Black Lives Matter Protesters Join Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Illegal Detention of People in the Winnebago County Jail
On Sunday, August 2, 2020, five people incarcerated in the Winnebago County Jail filed a class action lawsuit alleging widespread and systemic violations of the Fourth Amendment rights of people [...]
Major Victory Against Sheriff Dart’s Unlawful Detention Policy in Federal Court of Appeals
Yesterday, on July 23, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Plaintiffs in the Williams v. Dart class action lawsuit filed in February 2018 by Thedford Garber Law on [...]
Superintendent Brown Doubles Down on Failed Strategies to Combat Gun Violence
Chicago’s new police superintendent David Brown recently announced that he is planning a surge of arrests leading up to the July 4th weekend as a way to “prevent” violence. Brown also called on [...]