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This morning, the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board released an editorial about 19 people who are currently incarcerated in Cook County Jail pretrial on unaffordable money bonds, calling it a [...]

CCBF’s co-executive director Sharlyn Grace was featured on WBBM Newsradio‘s “Change Makers” this week. Listen in here!

Our Director of Programs, Matthew McLoughlin, writes in Truthout about the importance of Judge Hooks’ bond decision in Jackie Wilson’s case. Judge Hooks’s bond decision in Jackie [...]

Last week, we were featured on WBBM Newsradio! Our Co-Executive Director Sharlyn Grace was interviewed about our revolving fund and how we had just paid bond to free our 150th person from Cook [...]

Check out this new Windy City Times guest column by our very own Irene Romulo, CCBF’s Director of Advocacy, about the impact of pretrial incarceration on LGTBTQ communities, and [...]

Earlier this week, CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes was featured along with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer of Sapelo Square: An Online Resource on Black Muslims in the U.S., one of our partners in [...]

Thanks to Worldview for having CCBF’s Director of Advocacy Irene Romulo and Believers Bail Out organizer Nabihah Maqbool join the show yesterday! You can listen to the entire 13 minute [...]

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. [...]