This year, the Coalition to End Money Bond is supporting two bills in the Illinois legislature. First, the Coalition is excited to support HB 2689, the Pretrial Data Act, sponsored by [...]
Last night, the Coalition to End Money Bond was in Champaign-Urbana for a screening of the ACLU’s animated short films on mass incarceration and “Reclaiming the Crown: The [...]
One year ago today, local media was celebrating the fact that the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail dropped to a historic low of 5,909. Today, we are glad to see the number of [...]
Last summer, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans issued General Order 18.8A. The Order went into effect on September 18, 2017, and it states that no person is to be incarcerated in Cook County [...]
We are grateful to our friends at Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd.and The Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center who put together this letter in support of [...]
Last fall, the Coalition to End Money Bond organized more than 70 volunteers to monitor the implementation of General Order 18.8A in Cook County’s central bond court. The order aims to ensure [...]
General Order 18.8A, which went into effect for people charged with felonies on September 18, 2017, should now be fully implemented in all misdemeanor courts in Cook County as well. This means [...]
On any given day, tens of thousands of people are incarcerated in county jails in Illinois. Most of these people are being incarcerated pretrial—meaning they have not been convicted of a crime [...]
Community and criminal justice reform organizations will hold a press conference before the first major court hearing in the lawsuit filed on behalf of people incarcerated in Cook [...]
