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Today, we joined more than 100 groups in signing this shared statement of civil rights concerns highlighting opposition to, and concerns with, the adoption of algorithmic based decision-making [...]

~En Español abajo~  Join our first-ever local convening focused on the impact of electronic monitoring in the criminal legal and immigration detention systems! The half day event will [...]

Check out this new Windy City Times guest column by our very own Irene Romulo, CCBF’s Director of Advocacy, about the impact of pretrial incarceration on LGTBTQ communities, and [...]

CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes speaking at #ACLUcon18 with Jay Ellis of Insecure about the fight to #EndMoneyBail & the 14 months she spent in Cook County Jail [...]

Two weeks ago, CCBF organizer Devoureaux Wolf and CCBF’s Director of Advocacy Irene Romulo participated in UUSC: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s webinar on the fight [...]

Yesterday marked three years since the death of Kalief Browder. Beginning at age 16, Kalief spent more than one thousand days incarcerated pretrial at New York City’s Riker’s jail. In [...]

Earlier this week, CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes was featured along with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer of Sapelo Square: An Online Resource on Black Muslims in the U.S., one of our partners in [...]

It has been eight and half months since General Order 18.8A went into effect in Cook County in September 2017. The Order instructs bond court judges to set money bonds in amounts that people can [...]

We are delighted to be partnering with Sapelo Square, MPower Change, and Sirat Chicago for the first-ever Believers Bail Out! This Ramadan, the Believers Bail Out will raise money [...]

Yesterday’s rally and vigil in support of the lawsuit against Sheriff Dart was featured on WGN. The lawsuit was filed on Monday, February 26, 2018 on behalf of people currently being [...]