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Today, Sheriff Tom Dart attempted to raise alarm bells about the successes of bail reform in Cook County. Both major Chicago newspapers quote Dart and his office regarding the increased number of [...]

Download our 2017 Year-End Report Thanks to the powerful & growing movement to #EndMoneyBail, there are 1,500 fewer people in Cook County Jail today than there were just 3 months ago. We [...]

In July 2017, CCBF posted $20,000 to release Kenny, with the help of his family, after he spent over two months in Cook County Jail because he could not afford bond. Kenny’s incarceration [...]

Yesterday, we were at the County Commissioners hearing to speak out against punitive Pretrial Services in Cook County. We shined a light on how many people who are released pending trial are [...]

Click here to download “Punishment Is Not a “Service”: The Injustice of Pretrial Conditions in Cook County”. As bail reform advances and Cook County relies less on money bond and [...]

“A common argument for pretrial release on monitors is that it removes the pressure to accept a plea bargain simply to get out of jail. However, the case of Chicago’s Lavette Mayes [...]

CCBF advocate Lavette Mayes has just published her first piece of writing with the wonderful Truthout! In it, Lavette details her experience in Cook County Jail and at home on electronic [...]

Yesterday, CCBF members and people we posted bond for played a central role in the Cook County Board’s Ending Cash Bail at Cook County Jail hearing. CCBF helped organize a panel of people [...]

Last night, CCBF posted $5,000 to bond 24 year-old Fabian off of electronic monitoring (“EM”). For the past four months that he has been on EM, the Cook County Sheriff’s office [...]