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In September 2017, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans issued General Order 18.8A, which instructs judges to set money bonds only in amounts that people can afford to pay. Despite this Order, [...]

Last summer, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans issued General Order 18.8A. The Order went into effect on September 18, 2017, and it states that no person is to be incarcerated in Cook County [...]

General Order 18.8A states that no one should be “held in custody prior to trial solely because [they] cannot afford to post bail.” In the three months after the Order was [...]

Our Director of Programs, Matthew McLoughlin, writes in Truthout about the importance of Judge Hooks’ bond decision in Jackie Wilson’s case. Judge Hooks’s bond decision in Jackie [...]

These notices are now up outside trial courtrooms at 26th and California, the main criminal courthouse in Cook County. They state that people who are in jail without bail or because they cannot [...]

“‘Right now we have this really powerful national movement for bail reform and a lot of terrific momentum,’ Sharlyn Grace, the co-executive director of the Chicago Community [...]

We are grateful to our friends at Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd.and The Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center who put together this letter in support of [...]

On Tuesday, June 26, 2018, we paid bond to free our 150th person from Cook County Jail (CCJ). Since our founding in 2015, CCBF has posted more than $800,000 through our revolving bail fund to [...]

It has been more than nine months since General Order 18.8A went into effect in Cook County, directing judges to set money bonds only in amounts that people can afford to pay. Since then, the [...]

Earlier this week, the judge in the lawsuit to end money bond in Cook County issued a decision dismissing the case. *This not the decision we wanted, but it is the decision we expected. The civil [...]