“‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]