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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 [...]

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 [...]

Part three of South Side Weekly’s in-depth look at the movement to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County. This article focuses on the work of the Coalition to End Money Bond, of which CCBF is a [...]

New article from South Side Weekly takes an in-depth look at CCBF’s origin story and the Coalition to End Money Bond. This week the Coalition to End Money Bond released “Monitoring [...]

South Side Weekly takes an in-depth look at the history of bail reform. The article features CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes and CCBF co-founder Sharlyn Grace. You can read it here!

Over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, CCBF organizer Lavette Mayes joined Jason Hernandez and Johnny Perez for the premier of a series of animated shorts documenting their stories. The [...]

We were happy to be part of this week’s Delete Your Account podcast, guest hosted by CCBF Advisory Board member Mariame Kaba! Listen to one of our co-founders Sharlyn Grace and [...]

We were featured this morning in a great WBEZ story shining a light on how many judges in Cook County routinely deny people a public defender simply because they were able to post bond. Listen here!

“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 [...]