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CCBF is thrilled to announce that the Pretrial Fairness Act, our landmark legislation developed with our partners at the Coalition to End Money Bond and the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, [...]

Since the summer, we have organized alongside our partners at SOUL, The People’s Lobby, National Nurses United, the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, and 43 additional endorsing organizations to [...]

More than 200 people incarcerated in Cook County Jail are currently infected with COVID-19. The number of people incarcerated in the jail who have tested positive for the virus has more than [...]

Today, Cook County begins a stay-at-home advisory, and Illinois’ COVID-19 positivity rate is nearly 15%. Meanwhile, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail has climbed almost back [...]

Statement from the Budget for Black Lives Campaign: Today, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle released her 2021 budget recommendations. The President’s proposed budget includes a 7% [...]

During September 2020, the Chicago Police Department continued to arrest dozens of people in relation to the August 9th uprising after that same police department shot Latrell Allen. In response [...]

To honor our ongoing commitments to transparency and accountability to the larger community that makes all our work possible, we want to provide an update on how CCBF has been supporting people [...]

In a landmark ruling today, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals largely sided with plaintiffs in the Mays vs. Dart lawsuit challenging the conditions inside Cook County Jail during the COVID-19 [...]

On Sunday, August 2, 2020, five people incarcerated in the Winnebago County Jail filed a class action lawsuit alleging widespread and systemic violations of the Fourth Amendment rights of people [...]

Yesterday, on July 23, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Plaintiffs in the Williams v. Dart class action lawsuit filed in February 2018 by Thedford Garber Law on [...]