This morning, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced that his administration will be working to end money bond in 2020!

We are ecstatic that Governor Pritzker and Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton have made ending money bond an immediate policy priority. During the announcement, they both spoke clearly about the ways that money bond punishes people for their poverty and how jailing people hurts them, their families, and their communities.

We are committed to working with our partners in the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice to abolish money bond in Illinois. Above all, we are committed to ensuring that any policy changes adopted dramatically reduce the number of people incarcerated pretrial across Illinois. Onward!

Read news coverage of the announcement here.