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Please join our friend Rachel Wallis at this important event this Saturday, where you can help create quilts designed by women in Cook County Jail. The Inheritance Quilt is a collaboration with [...]

Yesterday, all criminal charges against Lee Dewey were dropped and their case was resolved as a non-criminal violation of a municipal ordinance!!!! This is a fantastic result, and it is also [...]

Today, Aretha Franklin passed away at the age of 76. In 1970, the queen of soul committed to paying bail to free Angela Davis. She was quoted in the December 1970 issue of Jet Magazine saying [...]

“I was assigned to be on the band for ninety days and it was worse than prison for me. It kind of made me feel like an animal.” On July 17, a coalition of organizations, including [...]

General Order 18.8A went into effect in September 2017. The Order instructs judges to set money bonds only in amounts that people can afford to pay. Immediately after the Order went into effect, [...]

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 [...]

Last week, we were featured on WBBM Newsradio! Our Co-Executive Director Sharlyn Grace was interviewed about our revolving fund and how we had just paid bond to free our 150th person from Cook [...]

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 [...]