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Thank you all for coming out to CCBF’s Second Anniversary Celebration! We had such a wonderful time with you. An extra special shout-out to Daniel & Damon [...]

Last week, CCBF posted bond for the 100th time! With your support, we have been able to free 100 people from Cook County Jail or home confinement in the last two years. Nothing CCBF has [...]

Click here to download “Punishment Is Not a “Service”: The Injustice of Pretrial Conditions in Cook County”. As bail reform advances and Cook County relies less on money bond and [...]

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.

We’re excited to invite you to Fight to Win: Shrinking Prisons and Jails / Strengthening Our Communities, an event on organizing against imprisonment and strategies to strengthen our fight for a [...]

On September 21st, CCBF posted $5,000 to free Miguel from Cook County Jail. Miguel was arrested in early August and charged with robbery and aggravated battery. After General Order 18.8A went [...]

For the second week in a row, volunteers through The Coalition to End Money Bond were in bond court to observe the implementation of an order by Chief Judge Evans aimed at ensuring that no one is [...]

Last Monday, a general order by Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans aimed at stopping judges from setting bonds that people can’t pay, went into effect for those charged with felonies. A wide [...]

“From the gallery, attorney Sharlyn Grace listened to these explanations with unease. Grace is a policy analyst with the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and a cofounder of the Chicago [...]