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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!

General Order 18.8A, which went into effect for people charged with felonies on September 18, 2017, should now be fully implemented in all misdemeanor courts in Cook County as well. This means [...]

For the first time in decades, there are fewer than 6,000 people in #CookCountyJail: that’s ~1,500 fewer people in just 3 months!!! Let’s keep going until [...]

We were happy to be part of this week’s Delete Your Account podcast, guest hosted by CCBF Advisory Board member Mariame Kaba! Listen to one of our co-founders Sharlyn Grace and [...]

Join us on Thursday, for an #EndMoneyBail Twitter Power Hour! We’ll be joining advisory board member Marime Kaba, Brooklyn Community Bail Fund and more to spread the word about the harms [...]

We were featured this morning in a great WBEZ story shining a light on how many judges in Cook County routinely deny people a public defender simply because they were able to post bond. Listen here!

Volunteers with The Coalition to End Money Bond have consistently observed judges failing to effectively implement Chief Judge Evans’ General Order 18.8A over the first month of its [...]

For a third week in a row, bond court judges failed to implement the Chief Judge’s court order designed to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County.