Courtwatch Movement Goes National
“‘Right now we have this really powerful national movement for bail reform and a lot of terrific momentum,’ Sharlyn Grace, the co-executive director of the Chicago Community [...]
“Jailed For Being Poor: How the Money Bail System Criminalizes Poverty” Webinar
Two weeks ago, CCBF organizer Devoureaux Wolf and CCBF’s Director of Advocacy Irene Romulo participated in UUSC: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s webinar on the fight [...]
CCBF Joins NLG for Webinar on Bail Funds
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 [...]
Connecticut Reforms Bail for Misdemeanors
Like Illinois, Connecticut legislators passed a bail reform bill this year that doesn’t go nearly far enough. Unlike SB 2034 in Illinois, Connecticut’s new law will actually keep [...]
Congrats to the Minnesota Freedom Fund
Congrats to the Minnesota Freedom Fund on their success in bailing out 33 people from jail, all of whom were incarcerated because they could not pay $1,000 or less! About a year ago, we met with [...]
Happy New Year!
On New Year’s Eve, more than 250 people made donations to us for #FreeThePeople Day. Collectively, you raised more than $35,000 to free people from Cook County Jail who are [...]