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Earlier this spring, community pressure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic led the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail to drop by more than 1,500 people. On May 9th, it reached [...]

Money bond does not keep people safe.  To that end, the Coalition to End Money Bond is committed to advocating for legislation that takes the money out of the equation when it comes to [...]

Today, we are excited to release the Illinois Network on Pretrial Justice’s Evaluation of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission’s Final Report and Recommendations. This report is the end result [...]

Every year, Illinois incarcerates over 250,000 people who are awaiting trial. None of these people have been convicted of a crime and most are jailed simply because they can’t afford to pay a [...]

On July 6, 2020, new Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown held a press conference about the Fourth of July weekend’s gun violence. Between 6 PM on Thursday, July 2, and 5 AM on [...]

The Coalition to End Money Bond has trained more than 75 community members to hold Cook County judges and prosecutors accountable to bond reforms as the situation in Cook County Jail worsens. The [...]

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 [...]