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The Champaign County board is poised to vote on a proposal to expand the county jail, which would cost the county $20 million dollars. Alarmingly, $5 million of this funding would come from [...]

On January 1, 2022, portions of the Pretrial Fairness Act will go into effect and expand the rights of people incarcerated in their homes on electronic monitoring (EM). Beginning next year, [...]

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and we would like to honor both survivors of intimate partner violence and those who have lost their lives, as well as the organizations working to [...]

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to hear his appeal of the lawsuit challenging unsafe conditions inside the Cook County Jail during the [...]

Opponents to ending money bond have long said that if people released pretrial don’t have money on the line, they’ll have no reason to return to court. A new report on the financial impact of [...]

Four years ago this week, General Order 18.8A went into effect and began reducing the number of people incarcerated pretrial in Cook County Jail due to unaffordable money bonds. This historic [...]

The Coalition to End Money Bond and Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice are devastated by the passing of our friend and member Malik Alim. Over the last two years, Malik’s voice became a [...]

Today, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers honored Representative Justin Slaughter, Senator Robert Peters, and Senator Elgie Sims with the Champion of State Criminal Justice [...]

Taking away someone’s freedom while they are presumed innocent is one of the most serious restrictions on liberty that the government can impose. That’s why the U.S. Supreme Court has previously [...]

Over the last several months, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown and Mayor Lori Lightfoot have repeatedly tried to blame pretrial justice reforms for the city’s gun violence without [...]