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VICTORY: Illinois Just Passed the Pretrial Fairness Act and Ended Money Bail

After years of advocacy by the Coalition to End Money Bond - including Chicago Appleseed and the Chicago Council of Lawyers - and thousands of other organizers across the state, the Illinois Legislature just became the first in the nation to abolish money bail by passing HB 3653 SFA2. Once Governor...

Illinois HB 163: Criminal Justice Omnibus

UPDATED: On January 13, 2020, the Illinois General Assembly voted to pass HB 3653, an amended version of HB 163, including the Pretrial Fairness Act (SFA2) which ends money bond. The Governor is expected to sign the legislation. Click here for more on the bill that passed. The criminal justic...

A Win for Public Health: IDPH’s Phase 1b of “COVID-19 Vaccination Plan” includes People in Jails and Prisons

On December 4, 2020, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) released their "COVID-19 Vaccination Plan," which indicated priority status of special groups - such as healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities. Troublingly, people incarcerated and corrections staff - a group...

Letter to IDPH: Give People Incarcerated in Illinois Priority Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine

On December 21, 2020, Chicago Appleseed, the Chicago Council of Lawyers, the Coalition to End Money Bond, and over 60 other community-based organizations throughout Illinois sent a letter to Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), requesting that people incarcer...

We analyzed 536,000 CPD arrest records spanning a period from 2014 to 2020. Here’s what we found.

INCOMMUNICADO DETENTION Arrested and deprived of communication without being charged with a crime — incommunicado detention in Chicago. In film and on TV, stories about police and criminals have long made for captivating story lines and entertaining ways to stream episodes until 4 am. In a ty...

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