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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 [...]

Yvette’s son, Tim, has been on electronic monitoring at her apartment in South Shore for almost an entire year. CCBF worked with Yvette to pay Tim’s $6,500 bond (a $65,000 D-Bond) and secure his [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday’s rally and vigil in support of the lawsuit against Sheriff Dart was featured on WGN. The lawsuit was filed on Monday, February 26, 2018 on behalf of people currently being [...]