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CCBF and our partners in the Coalition to End Money Bond rallied this morning before a federal lawsuit was heard demanding Sheriff Tom Dart stop his unconstitutional “review” program and follow [...]

A new filing in the class action lawsuit against Sheriff Dart has revealed that Dart’s practice of unconstitutionally denying people release on Electronic Monitoring was much larger than [...]

“‘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. [...]

Thousands of people are locked up before trial simply because they are too poor to afford bail. We have made progress in decreasing the number of people incarcerated before trial through Chief [...]

Terrific intervention here by a leader with The People’s Lobby, one of our partners in The Coalition to End Money Bond: “…Dart assumes that the best way to deal with violence is [...]

Today, CCBF testified at the county board meeting about the the impact of the Sheriff’s unconstitutional policy of reviewing and refusing the respect the release decisions made by bond court [...]

Last month, Sheriff Dart announced that he would be unconstitutionally detaining people who have been ordered released so he could conduct additional arbitrary reviews of their current charges [...]

Our friends at Uptown People’s Law Center and The Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center are speaking truth to power in this new op-ed on Dart’s illegal policy of detaining [...]

“Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is running into a backlash from the Cook County public defender and other legal advocates of people who are remaining in jail as his office scrutinizes if they [...]

Attorneys for people held in Cook County Jail even after their bonds were paid are challenging the Sheriff’s policy in federal court and also seeking to hold Dart in contempt in state court for [...]