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On March 2nd, CCBF posted $3,000 in bond to free Leonard from house arrest with electronic monitoring. Leonard was born in Chicago and has lived in Chicago nearly his whole life. He is close to [...]

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 [...]

~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 [...]

Last week, the first Believers Bail Out bond was posted to free a father of four from Cook County Jail. We are honored to be partnering with Sapelo Square: An Online Resource on Black Muslims in [...]

Today, our friends at Northside Transformative Law Center succeeding in getting Marquise’s murder case dismissed after he spent 2.5 years in Cook County Jail. Marquise’s [...]

This is a sobering reminder that the stakes of ending money bond and pretrial incarceration are literally life and death. In 2017, at least 22 people died while incarcerated in Cook County Jail. [...]

Thanks to Worldview for having CCBF’s Director of Advocacy Irene Romulo and Believers Bail Out organizer Nabihah Maqbool join the show yesterday! You can listen to the entire 13 minute [...]

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 [...]