This series was a finalist for the 2018 “Best Feature Series” in a non-daily newspaper or magazine Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club The third in a series on pretrial detention From organizing work in the sixties and seventies to recent pushes to end monetary bail, significant gains have been made in creating […]
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SSW Radio: Strong Relationships, Bail Reform, Uncomfortable Stories, and More
This week on SSW Radio we talked about Black History Month and bail reform, and got insight into how to build a strong foundation to a romantic relationship âTo me, Black History month has always been an opportunity to catch up on literature that I was not exposed to through the school system,â Trina Reynolds-Tyler […]
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A History of Bail Reform
This series was a finalist for the 2018 “Best Feature Series” in a non-daily newspaper or magazine Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club The first in a series on pretrial detention or people charged with a crime in Cook County, the most important word that comes out of a judgeâs mouth is âguiltyâ […]
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First state to eliminate cash bail
Welcome to the Lit Issue This year’s Literary Issue is centered around radical writing, transformative legislation, community, and self care as an act of resistance. In the featured book reviews, writers explore the complexities of Black art, the grief that comes with rest, and timeless abolitionist writing. This includes a community review of We Do […]
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Bailing Believers Out
ftentimes, zakat is sent abroad to various countries suffering with injusticesâbut it is important to show that some of that same brutality is happening in the United States to people in jail,â said Nabihah Maqbool, an organizer with Believers Bail Out (BBO) and law student at the University of Chicago, earlier this month at a […]
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âThe Evergrowing Industry of Warehousing Men and Womenâ
Melanie Newportâs forthcoming book outlines the racist history of Cook County Jail
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Public Meetings Report – August 05, 2021
This is post 11 of 60 in the series “Public Meetings Report” A recap of select open meetings at the local, county, and state level. Produced in partnership with City Bureau’s Documenters. Public Meetings Report – March 18, 2021 Public Meetings Report – April 1, 2021 Public Meetings Report – April 15, 2021 Public Meetings […]
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Whatâs Next for the Chicago Community Bond Fund?
n 2023, less than ten years after the Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) was founded, its primary functionâbonding people out of jailâwill become obsolete. That is the year that the Pretrial Fairness Act (PFA) will go into full effect, making Illinois the first state to fully abolish cash bail. Signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker on […]
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Should Protesters be Prosecuted? Foxx and OâBrien Differ
n December 2016, Cook County Stateâs Attorney Kim Foxx was tasked with leading the second-largest prosecutorâs office in the country. The first African-American woman to hold the office, she promised to be a progressive prosecutor, one of a wave of similar district attorneys (DAs) and stateâs attorneys across the country. These prosecutors have prioritized reducing […]
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Meet the Candidates: Bill Conway
ill Conway is one of three Democratic challengers to incumbent Cook County Stateâs Attorney Kim Foxx. He is running on his experience as a naval intelligence officer investigating the Talibanâs funding from narcotics sales, which he says will inform his efforts to remove illegal guns from Chicagoâs streets. Conway, who was a prosecutor in the […]