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Today, the Cook County’s Sheriff’s Office will be asking the Cook County Board for even more money. Despite a massive 45% decrease in the number of people incarcerated in Cook County [...]

In December 2018, CCBF paid $5,000 for Tony* to be released from Cook County Jail and onto house arrest with electronic monitoring (“EM”). CCBF paid Tony’s bond to bring him home to his five year [...]

Over the weekend, Sheriff Tom Dart spoke to WBBM’s Craig Dellimore and claimed that bond reform in Cook County has gone too far. His remarks come after Chief Judge Timothy Evans reported earlier [...]

Last night, ABC-7 ran a misleading story on the impact of bond reform in Cook County. The one-sided piece was informed by Sheriff Tom Dart, who believes that reforms to Cook County’s pretrial [...]

On Tuesday, Jose Pagán died of a suspected blood infection while in the Cook County Sheriff’s custody at Stroger Hospital. He was 54 years old.Mr. Pagán had never been arrested before, but [...]

Cook County Jail is not the largest mental health care provider in the US. It is a place where people with mental health needs who have been criminalized are incarcerated. People need resources, [...]

This image was pulled from Snapchat and shared by La Villita, Chicago. We are alarmed that Sheriff Tom Dart appears to have incarcerated people outside Cook County Jail and shoveling snow without [...]

This morning, CCBF gave testimony about the Sheriff’s jail budget at a County Board hearing. We argued that Cook County should divest from pretrial incarceration and invest in criminalized [...]

Today, Chicago Community Bond Fund is proud to release “Communities, Not Cages,” a new report documenting why Cook County should reduce the sheriff’s bloated jail budget. In [...]

This past winter, CCBF worked with Thedford Garber Law to file a class action lawsuit against Sheriff Dart’s practice of unconstitutionally denying people release on Electronic Monitoring [...]