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We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jeffery Pendleton, the first person to die from COVID-19 while in the custody of Cook County Jail. He was 59 years old and incarcerated because he [...]

CCBF first raised the alarm about the threat COVID-19 posed to people incarcerated in Cook County Jail on March 6th. The following week, on March 13th, we were joined by more than 25 advocacy, [...]

For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail has gone up. Between yesterday and today, at least 50 people were admitted to [...]

In just one week, the number of people at Cook County Jail who have tested positive for COVID-19 has gone from two to 101, with more than 90 people awaiting test results. At the current rate of [...]

Statement from Chicago Community Bond Fund and Chicago Appleseed For the last two weeks, over 100 advocacy, community, legal organizations, and unions have called on Cook County to release people [...]

Over 10 days ago, Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) and nearly 100 advocacy, community, and legal organizations and unions began calling for the mass release of people from Cook County Jail to [...]

For over a week, we have been clear: COVID-19 would inevitably enter Cook County Jail and put thousands of lives at risk. Yesterday we learned that a guard who had been working in the Cermak [...]

On the afternoon of Friday, March 20, 2020, Cook County Public Defender Amy Campanelli filed an emergency petition calling for the mass release of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail to [...]

Yesterday, Kim Foxx announced that she will start working with the Sheriff’s and Public Defender’s Offices to allow several dozen people held on bonds of $1,000 or less for nonviolent [...]