Category Archives: Criminal Justice

Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, the ACLU of Illinois, the Cook County Department of Public Health, and the Illinois Justice Project have released our joint report, Reducing Barriers to Recovery – Shifting Low-Level Drug Possession From Felonies to Misdemeanors in Illinois. Our report provi...

The Shriver Center for Poverty Law, Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, and MediaJustice have released our report Cages Without Bars: Pretrial Electronic Monitoring Across the United States. This report, which was created with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as p...

This week, Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts gave testimony at two Cook County Board of Commissioners meetings on September 20 and September 22 to warn against the harms caused by electronic surveillance.  At the first Board of Commissioners meeting on September 20, our Director of Po...

In late 2020, Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts contracted with the Cook County Justice Advisory Council (JAC) to provide technical assistance for a review of the pretrial electronic monitoring (EM) programs in Cook County. The aims of the study included developing strategies to keep people a...

Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, the Chicago Council of Lawyers, The People’s Lobby, and Reclaim Chicago have released our ninth report discussing the current state of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Since State’s Attorney (SA) Kim Foxx took office in Cook County, our coalition h...