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In October, an unidentified 30-year-old man from the Lawndale neighborhood became the fourth person known to have died in the custody of the Cook County Sheriff in 2019. He was incarcerated in a [...]

Yesterday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance intended to reduce negative impacts of clerk’s fees and other court costs on impoverished Black and Brown communities who pay [...]

We are excited to share this video of our teach-in on organizing to end money bond and pretrial incarceration in Cook County. Join CCBF staff members Devoureaux Wolf, Ruby Pinto, and Sharlyn [...]

Between January and March, judges in Cook County’s Central Bond Court set unaffordable money bonds and no bonds in only 17% of cases, nearly a 10% decrease from the same time period last year. In [...]

D grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he learned to speak English and Spanish and grow his own vegetables in the backyard. When he was 12, his family moved to Chicago so they could leave an abusive [...]

Chicago Community Bond Fund was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Lavera Scott while she was incarcerated in Cook County Jail this past March. Jail is an inherently dangerous place where [...]

In February 2018, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart publicly announced a new policy of reviewing bond decisions and refusing to release some people from Cook County Jail—even after their bond [...]

Chicago Community Bond Fund is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Lavera Scott, who died this past weekend while incarcerated pretrial in Cook County Jail on a charge of drug possession. [...]

The number of people incarcerated pretrial in Cook County continues to drop to new historic lows, and yet the need to purchase the freedom of other people remains. Last week, CCBF paid bond for [...]

Having grown up on the South Side and around Robert Taylor Homes, Faith* has always been aware of the Chicago Police Department. After months of being harassed by the police in the summer [...]