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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, [...]

CCBF’s co-executive director Sharlyn Grace was featured on WBBM Newsradio‘s “Change Makers” this week. Listen in here!

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 [...]

Our Director of Programs, Matthew McLoughlin, writes in Truthout about the importance of Judge Hooks’ bond decision in Jackie Wilson’s case. Judge Hooks’s bond decision in Jackie [...]

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 [...]