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The union representing guards at Cook County Jail is calling for their members to be first in line for the COVID-19 vaccine, yet has made no similar calls for the vaccination of people who are [...]

Since the summer, we have organized alongside our partners at SOUL, The People’s Lobby, National Nurses United, the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, and 43 additional endorsing organizations to [...]

More than 200 people incarcerated in Cook County Jail are currently infected with COVID-19. The number of people incarcerated in the jail who have tested positive for the virus has more than [...]

Yesterday, Harold Graszer died after having contracted COVID-19 in Cook County Jail. He was 85 years old, and he is now the eighth person to die from COVID-19 while in the custody of Cook County [...]

Today, Cook County begins a stay-at-home advisory, and Illinois’ COVID-19 positivity rate is nearly 15%. Meanwhile, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail has climbed almost back [...]

On Friday, CCBF mailed approximately 3,000 stimulus check applications from people incarcerated in Cook County Jail! The previous week, we printed and distributed 5,600 applications, enough to [...]

On September 9, 2020, the Budget for Black Lives Coalition put forth a proposal that the county divest $157 million from the Sheriff’s Office and invest that money equitably into public [...]

Statement from the Budget for Black Lives Campaign: Today, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle released her 2021 budget recommendations. The President’s proposed budget includes a 7% [...]

To honor our ongoing commitments to transparency and accountability to the larger community that makes all our work possible, we want to provide an update on how CCBF has been supporting people [...]

In a landmark ruling today, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals largely sided with plaintiffs in the Mays vs. Dart lawsuit challenging the conditions inside Cook County Jail during the COVID-19 [...]