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Yesterday, Kim Foxx announced that she will start working with the Sheriff’s and Public Defender’s Offices to allow several dozen people held on bonds of $1,000 or less for nonviolent [...]

Legislation has been introduced that would eliminate the use of monetary bond in Illinois and dramatically reduce pretrial incarceration! Tyler Smith spoke at a press conference this morning [...]

Check out this article in Pacific Standard documenting how advocates in Chicago (us!), New York, and beyond are fighting GOP moneymen, and major insurance companies, to end the predatory practice.

Yesterday, CCBF members and people we posted bond for played a central role in the Cook County Board’s Ending Cash Bail at Cook County Jail hearing. CCBF helped organize a panel of people [...]

Two weeks ago, Sheriff Dart’s legislative proposal to address pretrial detention was almost laughably inadequate: he proposed allowing the Sheriff’s office to request bond reductions [...]