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We’re proud to be here at City Hall in solidarity with #NoCopAcademy, mobilized to oppose FOP’s demands. Schools for kids, not for cops! Learn more about the [...]

It has been eight and half months since General Order 18.8A went into effect in Cook County in September 2017. The Order instructs bond court judges to set money bonds in amounts that people can [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday’s rally and vigil in support of the lawsuit against Sheriff Dart was featured on WGN. The lawsuit was filed on Monday, February 26, 2018 on behalf of people currently being [...]

“Chief Circuit Court Judge Timothy Evans ordered his judges to ensure “the defendant has the present ability to pay the amount necessary to secure his or her release on bail.” “Defendants [...]

“‘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. [...]

Thousands of people are locked up before trial simply because they are too poor to afford bail. We have made progress in decreasing the number of people incarcerated before trial through Chief [...]

Today, Broadly published an op-ed by CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes. In this article, Lavette shares her own experience with pretrial incarceration and explains why she is organizing [...]

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 [...]