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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 [...]

We are delighted to be partnering with Sapelo Square, MPower Change, and Sirat Chicago for the first-ever Believers Bail Out! This Ramadan, the Believers Bail Out will raise money [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“‘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. [...]

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 [...]

Next week we’ll be working with City Bureau for Public Newsroom #58: Monitoring Cook County’s Central Bond Court! In the fall of 2017, the Coalition to End Money Bond [...]

Earlier this month, we participated in a webinar Bail Funds & Community-Based Strategies that was hosted by the National Lawyers Guild and featured Law for Black [...]

Last year, the Chief Judge of Cook County issued General Order 18.8A, which instructs judges to stop issuing money bonds in amounts that people cannot afford. Since then, the number of people [...]