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Shifting Fronts in Bail Reform

by Kiran Misra

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 […]

Posted inRadio

SSW Radio: Strong Relationships, Bail Reform, Uncomfortable Stories, and More

by Erisa Apantaku, Olivia Obineme, The Weekly Read and Sam Larsen

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 “To me, Black History month has always been an opportunity to catch up on literature that I was not exposed to through the school system,” Trina Reynolds-Tyler […]

Posted inPolitics

A History of Bail Reform

by Kiran Misra

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 judge’s mouth is “guilty” […]

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Police Reform Not Fully Implemented in Illinois, Five Years After Laws Passed

by Max Blaisdell and Hyde Park Herald

ive years after Illinois passed one of the nation’s most sweeping police reform laws, key provisions remain incompletely implemented across the state’s more than 800 law enforcement agencies, according to a report released this month. Between one third and half of police departments surveyed said their use-of-force policies are missing at least one requirement under […]

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First state to eliminate cash bail

by South Side Weekly

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

by Isra Rahman

ftentimes, zakat is sent abroad to various countries suffering with injustices—but it is important to show that some of that same brutality is happening in the United States to people in jail,” said Nabihah Maqbool, an organizer with Believers Bail Out (BBO) and law student at the University of Chicago, earlier this month at a […]