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Yesterday, the Coalition to End Money Bond and more than 40 organizations from across Cook County sent a letter to the Cook County Board of Commissioners to call on them to stop the expansion of [...]

In January 2022, the Pretrial Fairness Act expanded the rights of people incarcerated in their homes on electronic monitoring to reduce the harm they experience  under this alternative form [...]

Yesterday, Mayor Lightfoot held a press conference about gun violence in Chicago and again called for people to be jailed pretrial based solely on the accusations they face in court. This harmful [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

On Friday, July 2, 2021, Superintendent David Brown appeared at Chicago’s City Council to answer questions regarding the Chicago Police Department’s strategy to address gun violence over the [...]

In an editorial published on Friday, the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board clamored for more pretrial incarceration by highlighting the number of people currently on Sheriff’s electronic monitoring [...]

Every spring, Chicago sees rising temperatures and an increase in gun violence. Predictably, the Mayor and Chicago Police then carts out a new false narrative about the causes of crime in our [...]

On July 13th, 2019, over 160 people from throughout Illinois came together in Springfield, the state’s capital, to launch a statewide movement to end money bond. The People’s Convening on [...]

Across Illinois, a movement for pretrial justice is growing. Join the Coalition to End Money Bond for the first gathering of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice on July 13, 2019 in [...]