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This is a sobering reminder that the stakes of ending money bond and pretrial incarceration are literally life and death. In 2017, at least 22 people died while incarcerated in Cook County Jail. [...]

Thanks to Worldview for having CCBF’s Director of Advocacy Irene Romulo and Believers Bail Out organizer Nabihah Maqbool join the show yesterday! You can listen to the entire 13 minute [...]

It has been eight and half months since General Order 18.8A went into effect in Cook County in September 2017. The Order instructs bond court judges to set money bonds in amounts that people can [...]

CCBF organizer Lavette is featured in today’s Chicago Tribune talking about how pretrial incarceration impacted her as a mother and how it continues to impact her children today. Join us [...]

Join us on Saturday, May 12th for Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration’s Fifth Annual Incarcerated Mother’s Day Vigil! If you can’t make it the day of and still want [...]

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 [...]

CCBF and our partners in the Coalition to End Money Bond rallied this morning before a federal lawsuit was heard demanding Sheriff Tom Dart stop his unconstitutional “review” program and follow [...]

“Chief Circuit Court Judge Timothy Evans ordered his judges to ensure “the defendant has the present ability to pay the amount necessary to secure his or her release on bail.” “Defendants [...]

A new filing in the class action lawsuit against Sheriff Dart has revealed that Dart’s practice of unconstitutionally denying people release on Electronic Monitoring was much larger than [...]

“‘Even though the practices of bond court have changed significantly, we are a long way from where we want to be and where the order would like us to be,’ [Sharlyn] Grace said. [...]