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These notices are now up outside trial courtrooms at 26th and California, the main criminal courthouse in Cook County. They state that people who are in jail without bail or because they cannot [...]

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 [...]

Check out this new Windy City Times guest column by our very own Irene Romulo, CCBF’s Director of Advocacy, about the impact of pretrial incarceration on LGTBTQ communities, and [...]

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 [...]

Join us at noon today at the Daley Center as we stand in solidarity with sex workers, survivors of violence, and criminalized workers everywhere! We stand opposed to SESTA & FOSTA, which make [...]