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On any given day, nearly 20,000 people are incarcerated in county jails across Illinois. Inside the state’s 92 jails, people are packed tight into what are often unsanitary conditions where [...]

Yesterday, community groups and individuals with the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and the Coalition to End Money Bond journeyed to Springfield from across Illinois to lobby legislators [...]

Last week, The Chicago Tribune published an article attacking bond reform in Cook County and attempting to undermine the efforts of community groups to reduce pretrial jailing. The article [...]

Read the report here! On January 22, 2020, the Coalition to End Money Bond is releasing a new report detailing six principles designed to guide lawmakers in efforts to reform Illinois’ pretrial [...]

On January 9, 2020, Governor JB Pritzker announced that ending money bond would be a top priority for his administration this year. For the last several years, our coalition has been working [...]

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 [...]

Every year, more than a quarter of a million people are incarcerated pretrial in jails across Illinois. Most of these people are incarcerated simply because they can’t afford to pay a money bond. [...]

Gun violence in Chicago is at a four year low. Burglaries and robberies are at a 20 year low. All while fewer people were incarcerated in Cook County Jail this year than at any time in the last [...]

Read: “Protecting Pretrial Freedom: Two Years of Bond Reform in Cook County” On September 18, 2017, General Order 18.8A, a Cook County court rule designed to limit the use of money bond, went [...]

For Kam and Kaylen, pretrial incarceration on a money bond was devastating, and its lasting impact continues to this day. Kam was arrested in the fall of 2018 in DuPage County and ordered to pay [...]