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Last month, CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes participated in a “Digital Prisons: Electronic Monitors Are A False Solution to Decarceration” a webinar hosted by the Center for Media [...]

Terrific intervention here by a leader with The People’s Lobby, one of our partners in The Coalition to End Money Bond: “…Dart assumes that the best way to deal with violence is [...]

Today, CCBF testified at the county board meeting about the the impact of the Sheriff’s unconstitutional policy of reviewing and refusing the respect the release decisions made by bond court [...]

Last month, Sheriff Dart announced that he would be unconstitutionally detaining people who have been ordered released so he could conduct additional arbitrary reviews of their current charges [...]

Our friends at Uptown People’s Law Center and The Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center are speaking truth to power in this new op-ed on Dart’s illegal policy of detaining [...]

Last month, Sheriff Tom Dart announced that his office would be reviewing the release decisions being made by Cook County’s Bond Court judges. Since then, Dart has denied release to many [...]

Part three of South Side Weekly’s in-depth look at the movement to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County. This article focuses on the work of the Coalition to End Money Bond, of which CCBF is a [...]

“Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is running into a backlash from the Cook County public defender and other legal advocates of people who are remaining in jail as his office scrutinizes if they [...]

Attorneys for people held in Cook County Jail even after their bonds were paid are challenging the Sheriff’s policy in federal court and also seeking to hold Dart in contempt in state court for [...]

Read this important Letter to the Editor about Sheriff Dart’s unfounded fearmongering about public safety, electronic monitoring, & the fight to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County by scholar, [...]