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This week, we joined Assata’s Daughters, For the People Artists Collective, Organized Communities Against Deportations, People’s Response Team and more to launch [...]

“From the gallery, attorney Sharlyn Grace listened to these explanations with unease. Grace is a policy analyst with the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and a cofounder of the Chicago [...]

Yesterday, gathered with faith leaders, policy groups, and other community organizations to demand Cook County End Money Bail now! lick here to read about the press conference in Chicagoist. “I [...]

Join us at the Daley Center five days from now! We have been promised reform (and plan to ensure it comes through), but it is fleeting without a court order declaring our current money bond [...]

Join us and our allies from the Coalition to End Money Bond outside bond court on Monday, September 18th–the day that Chief Judge Evans’ new order on money bond takes effect. We will [...]

This is a reminder to all of us pushing for bail reform about exactly how high the stakes are. Jails literally kill people. Mr. Lopez House was in Cook County Jail on a series of retail theft [...]

We are happy to have been featured on this week’s The Seminary Co-op Bookstores Open Stacks Podcast alongside authors Susan Burton and Michaela Soyer! You should listen to the whole thing [...]

We just posted $10k to free the person arrested yesterday at #SlutwalkChi. We are proud to continue standing with Chicago’s social justice movements!

After four months of incarceration and another four months on house arrest, a jury found George “not guilty” on July 26th in his aggravated unlawful use of a weapon case. CCBF is thrilled that [...]