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Next week we’ll be working with City Bureau for Public Newsroom #58: Monitoring Cook County’s Central Bond Court! In the fall of 2017, the Coalition to End Money Bond [...]

On September 18th last year, General Order 18.8A went into effect in Cook County. The order states that no one should be held in Cook County Jail because they are unable to pay a money bond. Bond [...]

Last fall, CCBF and our partners in the Coalition to End Money Bond organized more than 70 volunteers to monitor the implementation of General Order 18.8A in Cook County’s central bond court. The [...]

Read this important Letter to the Editor about Sheriff Dart’s unfounded fearmongering about public safety, electronic monitoring, & the fight to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County by scholar, [...]

Today, Sheriff Tom Dart attempted to raise alarm bells about the successes of bail reform in Cook County. Both major Chicago newspapers quote Dart and his office regarding the increased number of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Courtwatching report back from week 2 of bond court under Judge Evans’ court order designed to#EndMoneyBail in Cook County: